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Thornton Wilder


Born
in Madison, Wisconsin, The United States
April 17, 1897

Died
December 07, 1975

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Plays


Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. He received three Pulitzer Prizes, one for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and two for his plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a National Book Award for his novel The Eighth Day.

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Average rating: 3.77 · 107,793 ratings · 6,999 reviews · 185 distinct works • Similar authors
Our Town
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3.73 avg rating — 56,192 ratings — published 1938 — 160 editions
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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3.79 avg rating — 36,212 ratings — published 1927 — 8 editions
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The Skin of Our Teeth
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3.82 avg rating — 4,981 ratings — published 1942 — 36 editions
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Three Plays: Our Town, The ...
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4.02 avg rating — 2,273 ratings — published 1957 — 99 editions
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The Ides of March
3.98 avg rating — 2,041 ratings — published 1948 — 48 editions
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The Eighth Day
3.98 avg rating — 1,749 ratings — published 1967 — 87 editions
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Theophilus North
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4.04 avg rating — 1,150 ratings — published 1973 — 65 editions
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The Matchmaker
3.68 avg rating — 806 ratings — published 1954 — 17 editions
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Heaven's My Destination
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3.75 avg rating — 390 ratings — published 1935 — 62 editions
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The Cabala
3.33 avg rating — 238 ratings — published 1926 — 68 editions
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Quotes by Thornton Wilder  (?)
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“Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town
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“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”
― Thornton Wilder
tags: life, living
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“The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.”
― Thornton Wilder
tags: epitaph, gratitude
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Polls

December 2019 New School Classic Poll

 
  107 votes, 34.7%

The Sea Wolf by Jack London, 1904, 295 pages
 
  78 votes, 25.3%

Ice by Anna Kavan, 1967, 193
 
  40 votes, 13.0%

The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher, 1987, 530 pages
 
  33 votes, 10.7%

 
  26 votes, 8.4%

Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin, 1978, 272 pages
 
  24 votes, 7.8%

308 total votes
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