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Thornton Wilder
1897–1975
Best known for the enduring play Our Town, this American writer brought ordinary life, time, and mortality into sharp, moving focus. His plays and novels are celebrated for their inventive form and their calm, clear sense of what matters most.
4 Audiobooks
The bridge of San Luis Rey
by Thornton Wilder
The Cabala
by Thornton Wilder
San Luis Reyn silta
by Thornton Wilder
The woman of Andros
by Thornton Wilder
About the author
Born in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1897, Thornton Wilder became one of the most admired American playwrights and novelists of the 20th century. He studied at Yale and went on to write fiction and drama that often looked past surface realism to larger questions about everyday life, memory, love, and death.
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. Along with his stage work, he wrote novels, essays, and translations, and his books and plays remained widely read and performed long after their first publication.
Wilder died in 1975, but his work still feels remarkably alive. Readers and audiences continue to return to him for the way he could make simple moments seem profound without losing warmth, humor, or humanity.