Thornton Wilder
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Thornton Niven Wilder (17 avril 1897 – 7 décembre 1975) était un dramaturge américain et un romancier. Son chef-d'œuvre au théâtre est Our Town.
[modifier] Biographie
Thornton Niven Wilder, né à Madison, dans le Wisconsin, est le fils de Amos Parker Wilder, diplomate, et d' Isabella Niven Wilder. Tous les enfants passèrent une bonne partie de leur enfance en Chine .
Son frère aîné, Amos Niven Wilder, était professeur de théologie à la Harvard Divinity School, et aussi poète.
[modifier] Romans
- The Cabala (1926)
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) ( Le Pont du roi Saint-Louis) – Prix Pulitzer
- The Woman of Andros (1930), basé sur Andria (L'Andrienne) de Térence.
- Heaven's My Destination (1935)
- Ides of March (1948)
- The Eighth Day (1967)
- Theophilus North (1973)
[modifier] Théâtre
- The Trumpet Shall Sound (1926)
- An Angel That Troubled the Waters and Other Plays (1928)
- The Long Christmas Dinner and Other Plays in One Act (1931) which includes
- The Long Christmas Dinner
- Queens of France
- Pullman Car Hiawatha
- Love and How to Cure It
- Such Things Only Happen in Books
- The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden
- Our Town (1938) – Pulitzer Prize
- The Merchant of Yonkers (1938)
- The Skin of Our Teeth (1942) – Pulitzer Prize
- The Matchmaker (1954) (revised from The Merchant of Yonkers)
- Childhood (1960)
- Infancy (1960)
- Plays for Bleecker Street (1962)
- The Alcestiad: Or, A Life In The Sun (1977)
- The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder Volume I (1997) which includes
- The Long Christmas Dinner
- Queens of France
- Pullman Car Hiawatha
- Love and How to Cure It
- Such Things Only Happen in Books
- The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden
- The Drunken Sisters
- Bernice
- The Wreck on the Five-Twenty-Five
- A Ringing of Doorbells
- In Shakespeare and the Bible
- Someone from Assisi
- Cement Hands
- Infancy
- Childhood
- Youth
- The Rivers Under the Earth
