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A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it. - Thornton Wilder Attribution: Thornton Wilder (1897–1975), U.S. novelist, dramatist. Interview in Writers at Work, First Series, ed. Malcolm Cowley (1958).

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Thornton Wilder

Titles by Thornton Wilder:

• Our Town
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey
• The Matchmaker
• The Skin of Our Teeth

eNotes:

• Thornton Wilder (Our Town)
• Thornton Wilder in the Role of Stage Manager (Our Town)
• Thornton Wilder in 1968 (The Skin of Our Teeth)
• Thornton Wilder (The Matchmaker)

Encyclopedia:

• Wilder, Thornton [Niven] (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)
• Wilder, Thornton Niven (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• Thornton Wilder (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
• Thornton Wilder (Critical Survey of Drama)
• Thornton Wilder (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Thornton Wilder (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

Literary Criticism:

• Wilder, Thornton (Vol. 6) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Wilder, Thornton (Vol. 5) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Wilder, Thornton (Vol. 1) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Wilder, Thornton (Vol. 15) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Wilder, Thornton (Vol. 10) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Our Town, Thornton Wilder (Drama Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Thornton Wilder is born
• Thornton Wilder publishes The Bridge of San Luis Rey
• Thornton Wilder receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The Bridge of San Luis Rey
• Thornton Wilder's Our Town is produced
• Thornton Wilder publishes The Skin of Our Teeth
• Thornton Wilder dies