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The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

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Author Biography

Name: Thornton Niven Wilder
Birth Date: April 17, 1897
Death Date: December 7, 1975
Place of Birth: Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Place of Death: Hamden, Connecticut, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: playwright, novelist

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Biography of Thornton Niven Wilder
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Novelist and playwright Thornton Niven Wilder (1897-1975) won two Pulitzer Prizes for his plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, written in 1938 and 1942 respectively. His most renowned novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, also accorded him a Pulitzer P...
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Biography of Thornton (Niven) Wilder
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Thornton Wilder, the only writer to receive Pulitzer Prizes for both plays and a novel, once observed, "I guess I was the only writer of my generation who didn't 'go to Paris!'" For him the road abroad led to Rome, which he first visited in the summer of...
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Biography of Thornton (Niven) Wilder
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Thornton Wilder was a student of the human condition; in his writing he aimed for and achieved the universal. His plays in particular were concerned with both the timely and the timeless, and he most distinguished himself in the theater, although his fir...
 


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The Bridge of San Luis Rey is a 1927 novel by American author Thornton Wilder that tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope-fiber suspension bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the...


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