Thornton Wilder

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]

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Konuyla ilgili yayınlar

Kaynakça

Dış bağlantılar

  Official Thornton Wilder Family Website
  The Thornton Wilder Society
 
 
  Retrieved on 18 May 2009
 
   Biography from The Thornton Wilder Society
  Today in History, The Library of Congress, April 17

1897 doğumlular
1975 yılında ölenler
Wisconsin doğumlu yazarlar
Kurgu dalında Pulitzer Ödülü sahipleri
20. yüzyıl Amerikalı roman yazarları
20. yüzyıl Amerikalı hikâye yazarları
Amerikalı oyun yazarları
Amerikalı yazarlar
Pulitzer Ödülünü iki defa alan yazarlar
Drama dalında Pulitzer Ödülü sahipleri
Amerikalı erkek roman yazarları
Pulitzer Ödülü alan yazarlar
Amerikalı hikâye yazarları
Pulitzer Ödülü sahipleri