Who is Thornton Wilder
Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes — for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth — and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day.Early years and family
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.Wilder had four siblings as well as a twin who was stillborn. All of the surviving Wilder children spent part of their childhood in China when their father was stationed in Hong Kong and Shanghai as U.S. Consul General. Thornton's older brother, Amos Niven Wilder, became Hollis Professor of Divinity at the Harvar...
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- The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
- But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.
- It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
- The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
- We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
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Soulecting: seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. thornton wilder
Beineckelibrary: tennessee williams, donald windham, thornton wilder, & guthrie mcclintock from the dress rehearsal before opening in boston for you touched me, 1945. dw & sandy campbell papers
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