Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder was born in 1897 in Madison, Wisconsin; his twin died at birth. He spent part of his childhood in China, where his father was consul general. He graduated from Yale, studied archaeology in Rome, taught French at a school in New Jersey, then literature at the University of Chicago. A three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, he is the only writer awarded it both for a novel and for plays. During the war he served in air intelligence in North Africa and Italy. He died in Hamden, Connecticut, in 1975.

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• TheatreOur TownThornton Wilder · 1938Literature