Day. Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin, the son of Amos Parker Wilder, a newspaper editor and later a U.S. diplomat, and Isabella Thornton Niven...
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I was always a great admirer of Thornton Wilder." Cohen, Sandy; McShane, Larry (August 29, 2016). "Nephew: Gene Wilder, star of Mel Brooks movies, dies...
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel. It was first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. The novel won the Pulitzer...
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Our Town (category Plays by Thornton Wilder)
Our Town is a three-act play written by American playwright Thornton Wilder in 1938. Described by Edward Albee as "the greatest American play ever written"...
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or enthusiastic. Wilder D. Baker (1890–1975), United States Navy admiral Wilder Dwight Bancroft (1867–1953), American chemist Wilder Calderón (born 1947)...
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The Eighth Day is a 1967 novel by Thornton Wilder. Set in a mining town in southern Illinois, the plot revolves around John Barrington Ashley, who is...
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It was established by Tappan Wilder and Catharine Wilder Guiles, the nephew and niece of Academy member Thornton Wilder (1897–1975), and given for the...
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The Ides of March is an epistolary novel by Thornton Wilder that was published in 1948. It is, in the author's words, 'a fantasia on certain events and...
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playwright Thornton Wilder, for whom she was literary agent, spokesperson and biographer. Isabel Wilder was the daughter of Isabella and Amos Parker Wilder, publisher...
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drama romance film adaptation of the 1938 play of the same name by Thornton Wilder, starring Martha Scott as Emily Webb, and William Holden as George...
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