Thornton Wilder

Born April 17, 1897· Madison, Wisconsin, USA

† Died December 7, 1975

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Emerging from a Madison, Wisconsin family that spent part of his youth in China, he completed his studies at Yale (B.A.) and Princeton (M.A. in French literature) before a brief stint teaching French in New Jersey. His first novel, The Cabala, appeared in 1926, but it was the 1927 publication of The Bridge of San Luis Rey that earned him a Pulitzer Prize and lasting fame. Subsequent dramas such as… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources