# Thornton Wilder

| Thornton Wilder |
| --- |
| Wilder, 1948 |
| Doğum | 17 Nisan 1897(1897-04-17) Madison, Wisconsin, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri |
| Ölüm | 7 Aralık 1975 (78 yaşında) Hamden, Connecticut, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri |
| Meslek | Yazar |
| Milliyet | Amerikalı |
| Dönem | 1940–1985 |
| Tür | Roman, kısa öykü |
| Önemli ödülleri | Kurgu dalında Pulitzer Ödülü, National Book Award |
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**Thornton Niven Wilder** (17 Nisan 1897 - 7 Aralık 1975), Amerikalı oyun yazarı ve romancı. The Bridge of San Luis Rey romanı ve *Our Town*, *The Skin of Our Teeth* isimli oyunlarıyla üç kez Pulitzer Ödülü kazanmıştır. Ayrıca *The Eighth Day* romanı ile National Book Award ödülünü kazanmıştır.

## Eserleri

### Oyunlar

* *The Trumpet Shall Sound* (1926)
* *The Angel That Troubled the Waters and Other Plays* (1928):
	+ "Nascuntur Poetae"
	+ "Proserpina and the Devil"
	+ "Fanny Otcott"
	+ "Brother Fire"
	+ "The Penny That Beauty Spent"
	+ "The Angel on the Ship"
	+ "The Message and Jehanne"
	+ "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"
	+ "Centaurs"
	+ "Leviathan"
	+ "And the Sea Shall Give Up Its Dead"
	+ "The Servant's Name Was Malchus"
	+ "Mozart and the Gray Steward"
	+ "Hast Thou Considered My Servant Job?"
	+ "The Flight Into Egypt"
	+ "The Angel That Troubled the Waters"
* *The Long Christmas Dinner and Other Plays in One Act* (1931):
	+ *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)—won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
* *The Merchant of Yonkers* (1938)
* *The Skin of Our Teeth* (1942)—won the Pulitzer Prize
* *The Matchmaker* (1954)—revised from *The Merchant of Yonkers*
* *The Alcestiad: Or, a Life in the Sun* (1955)
* *Childhood* (1960)
* *Infancy* (1960)
* *Plays for Bleecker Street* (1962
* *The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder Volume I* (1997):
	+ *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*

### Romanlar

* *The Cabala* (1926)
* *The Bridge of San Luis Rey* (1927)—won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel
* *The Woman of Andros* (1930)—based on *Andria*, a comedy by Terence
* *Heaven's My Destination* (1935)
* *Ides of March* (1948)
* *The Eighth Day* (1967)—won the National Book Award for Fiction
* *Theophilus North* (1973) [reprinted as *Mr. North* following the appearance of the film of the same name]

### Koleksiyonlar

* Wilder, Thornton (2007). McClatchy, J.D. (Ed.). *Thornton Wilder, Collected Plays and Writings on Theater*. Library of America. **172**. New York: Library of America. ISBN 978-1-59853-003-2.
* Wilder, Thornton (2009). McClatchy, J.D. (Ed.). *Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels 1926–1948*. Library of America. **194**. New York: Library of America. ISBN 978-1-59853-045-2.

## Konuyla ilgili yayınlar

* Gottlieb, Robert (7 Ocak 2013). "Man of Letters: The case of Thornton Wilder". *The New Yorker*. **88** (42). ss. 71-76. 25 Ekim 2014 tarihinde kaynağından arşivlendi24 Ekim 2014.

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* [3]18 Nisan 2012 tarihinde Wayback Machine sitesinde arşivlendi. Official Thornton Wilder Family Website
* [4] The Thornton Wilder Society
* Richard H. Goldstone (Kış 1956). "Thornton Wilder, The Art of Fiction No. 16". *The Paris Review*. 4 Haziran 2012 tarihinde kaynağından arşivlendi11 Aralık 2016.
* Find a Grave'de Thornton Wilder
* IBDB'de Thornton Wilder Retrieved on 18 May 2009
* Internet Off-Broadway Database'de Thornton Wilder
* [5] 10 Aralık 2016 tarihinde Wayback Machine sitesinde arşivlendi. Biography from The Thornton Wilder Society
* [6]20 Mayıs 2012 tarihinde Wayback Machine sitesinde arşivlendi. Today in History, The Library of Congress, April 17