Question: Who is both an american novelist and playwright, Pete Dexter or Thornton Wilder?

Context articles: The Long Christmas Dinner
The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden
Thornton Wilder
Pete Dexter
Austin Gary
Charlotte Wilder
Janet Wilder Dakin
Our Town
The Merchant of Yonkers
Our Town (1940 film)

The Long Christmas Dinner is a play in one act written by American novelist and playwright Thornton Wilder in 1931.
 In its first published form, it was included in the volume "The Long Christmas Dinner and Other Plays in One Act".
The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden is a one act play by American novelist and playwright Thornton Wilder written in 1931.
 It was first published in "The Long Christmas Dinner and Other Plays in One Act" (New York: Coward-McCann, 1931).
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 two plays "Our Town" and "The Skin of Our Teeth" — and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel "The Eighth Day".
Pete Dexter (born July 22, 1943) is an American novelist.
Austin Gary (born Gary Austin Heyde, March 7, 1947, St. Joseph, Missouri, United States) is an American novelist, mostly known as a BMI award-winning songwriter for "The Car" by Jeff Carson (as Gary Heyde) and recordings by other country performers like Tammy Wynette and John Berry, and as Associate Producer of albums by Carson, Berry and Hank Williams, Jr.'s "Hog Wild" album.
 Also a storyteller, he has appeared on Seattle Public radio station KUOW with personal stories about Thornton Wilder and the Martin Luther King assassination and A Guide To Visitors—The Best Of Stories On Stage.
 He is also a high school teacher (Haubstadt (IN); Franklin, TN; Middle College, TN; John Overton (TN) and Big Picture (WA), intuitive numerologist and a former advertising creative director, radio/television jingle composer, and newspaper editor.
 He is a member of PEN Canada.
Charlotte Wilder (1898–1980) was an American poet and the eldest sister of author Thornton Wilder, Isabel Wilder, Janet Wilder Dakin, and Amos Wilder.
Janet Wilder Dakin (June 3, 1910 - October 7, 1994), was a philanthropist, zoologist and a younger sister of author Thornton Wilder and poet Charlotte Wilder.
Our Town is a 1938 metatheatrical three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder.
 It tells the story of the fictional American small town of Grover's Corners between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens.
The Merchant of Yonkers is a play by Thornton Wilder.
 The play had its origins in an 1835 one-act farce by the English dramatist John Oxenford.
 Oxenford's work, "A Day Well Spent", was later extended into a full-length play entitled "Einen Jux will er sich machen" ("He Will Go on a Spree" or "He'll Have Himself a Good Time") by Austrian playwright Johann Nestroy in 1842.
 Wilder adapted Nestroy's version into an Americanized comedy entitled "The Merchant of Yonkers", which revolves around Horace Vandergelder, a wealthy Yonkers, New York businessman in the market for a wife.
Our Town is a 1940 American drama romance film adaptation of a play of the same name by Thornton Wilder starring Martha Scott as Emily Webb, and William Holden as George Gibbs.
 The cast also included Fay Bainter, Beulah Bondi, Thomas Mitchell, Guy Kibbee and Frank Craven.
 It was adapted by Harry Chandlee, Craven and Wilder, and directed by Sam Wood.