![]() ![]() In addition to his talents as a playwright and novelist, Wilder was an accomplished essayist, translator, research scholar, teacher, lecturer, librettist and screenwriter. His post-graduate studies included a year spent studying archaeology and Italian at the American Academy in Rome (1920-21) and graduate work in French at Princeton (Master’s degree, 1926). After attending Oberlin College for two years, he transferred to Yale, where he received his BA in 1920. He spent part of his boyhood in China and was educated principally in California, graduating from Berkeley High School in 1915. ![]() Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin, on April 17, 1897. Wilder’s many honors include the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the National Book Committee’s Medal for Literature and the Goethe-Plakette Award (Germany). The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden, Pullman Car Hiawatha and The Long Christmas Dinner are among his well-known shorter plays. His other major dramas include The Matchmaker (adapted as the musical Hello, Dolly!) and The Alcestiad. His other best-selling novels include The Cabala, The Woman of Andros, Heaven’s My Destination, The Ides of March, The Eighth Day and Theophilus North. He received the Pulitzer for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) and the plays Our Town (1938) and The Skin of Our Teeth (1942). ![]() He is the only writer to win Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and drama. Thornton Wilder (1897–1975) was a pivotal figure in the literary history of the twentieth-century. ![]()
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