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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 · 104,841 ratings · 6,658 reviews · 154 distinct works • Similar authors
Our Town
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3.72 avg rating — 54,569 ratings — published 1938 — 155 editions
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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3.79 avg rating — 35,329 ratings — published 1927 — 4 editions
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The Skin of Our Teeth
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3.83 avg rating — 4,871 ratings — published 1942 — 37 editions
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Three Plays: Our Town / The...
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4.03 avg rating — 2,215 ratings — published 1954 — 100 editions
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The Ides of March
3.98 avg rating — 1,958 ratings — published 1948 — 141 editions
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The Eighth Day
3.98 avg rating — 1,707 ratings — published 1967 — 81 editions
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Theophilus North
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4.03 avg rating — 1,117 ratings — published 1973 — 61 editions
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The Matchmaker
3.69 avg rating — 784 ratings — published 1954 — 18 editions
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Heaven's My Destination
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3.76 avg rating — 376 ratings — published 1935 — 59 editions
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The Cabala
3.29 avg rating — 226 ratings — published 1926 — 71 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

January 2017 Short Story Poll

The Pearl by John Steinbeck, 1947, 96 pages
 
  54 votes, 23.6%

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, 1879, 122 pages
 
  37 votes, 16.2%

The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde, 1888, 32 pages
 
  32 votes, 14.0%

 
  31 votes, 13.5%

The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain, 1916, 121 pages
 
  25 votes, 10.9%

Babette's Feast by Isak Dinesen, 1958, 54 pages
 
  15 votes, 6.6%

Gigi by Colette, 1942, 58 pages
 
  14 votes, 6.1%

 
  11 votes, 4.8%

The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster, 1909, 48 pages
 
  10 votes, 4.4%

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