Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder was born in 1897 in Madison, Wisconsin. His father was a newspaper editor who later became a U.S. diplomat, and the family spent part of Thornton's childhood in China, where his father was consul general in Hong Kong and Shanghai. During the First World War he served briefly in the army. He attended Oberlin College and graduated from Yale University in 1920, then spent several months at the American Academy in Rome before teaching French at the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey. His first novel, The Cabala, appeared in 1926. The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927), about several people killed when a bridge in Peru collapses, brought him success and his first Pulitzer Prize. His play Our Town (1938), about the everyday lives of people in a small New Hampshire town, won a second Pulitzer, and The Skin of Our Teeth (1942) a third. His comedy The Matchmaker later became the musical Hello, Dolly! His novel The Eighth Day won the National Book Award. From 1930 his family home was in Hamden, Connecticut. He died in 1975.

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Faith: Faith not well documented; religion is a recurring theme in his works. Source: Wikipedia