Thornton Wilder
Military Person, Author, and Playwright
The Novels of Thornton Wilder...Town currently running off-Broadway-has just entered an especially captivating phase. This month the Library of America republished his first five novels. In style, setting, and subject, they dance around from ancient Rome to 18th-century... In this article: Thornton Wilder, Our Town, Rome, The Skin of Our Teeth, Yale, Pepperidge Farm, Library of America, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, and Gertrude Stein |
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Wikipedia | September 22, 2009
Phil Andros
...who at the time regularly corresponded with the both of them. Wilder famously drafted the third act of Our Town during a brief affair with Steward in Zurich on their first meeting. Steward met famed sex researcher Alfred Kinsey around 1949...
In this article: Gertrude Stein, Phil Andros, Alfred Kinsey, Andre Gide, DePaul University, Chicago, and Alice B. Toklas
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Sylvia Beach
...contains first-hand observations of James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Valery Larbaud, Thornton Wilder, Andre Gide, Leon-Paul Fargue, George Antheil, Robert McAlmon, Gertrude Stein, Stephen Benet, Aleister...
In this article: Sylvia Beach, Adrienne Monnier, Shakespeare and Company, Paris, James Joyce, Ulysses, Andre Gide, and World War II
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Alice B. Toklas
...arrived. Together they hosted a salon that attracted expatriate American writers, such as Ernest Hemingway, Paul Bowles, Thornton Wilder and Sherwood Anderson, and avant-garde painters, including Picasso , Matisse and Braque . Acting as...
In this article: Gertrude Stein, Alice Babette Toklas, Alice B. Toklas Cookbook, Diana Ross, Cannabis, San Francisco, California, Paris, and Van Ness Avenue
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Thornton Wilder
...and four essays on fiction in one volume. Although Wilder never discussed being gay publicly or in his writings, his close friend Samuel Steward is generally acknowledged to have been a lover. Wilder was introduced to Steward by Gertrude...
In this article: Thornton Niven Wilder, Our Town, Gertrude Stein, Alfred Hitchcock, Philosophy, National Book Award, Lawrenceville School, and Broadway
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Finnegans Wake
...of the work to make exactly this argument for Finnegans Wake. One of the book's early champions was Thornton Wilder, who wrote to Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas in August 1939, a few months after the book's publication: "One of my...
In this article: Finnegans Wake, James Joyce, Ulysses, and Four Masters
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Dorothy Hale
...Dymaxion car. The threesome stopped to see Thornton Wilder in Hamden , Connecticut, before going on to Hartford to join Fuller for the out-of-town opening of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thompson's Four Saints in Three Acts. By 1937, Hale...
In this article: Dorothy Hale, Clare Boothe Luce, Isamu Noguchi, Suicide, Frida Kahlo, Harry Hopkins, Bernard Baruch, New York City, and Four Saints in Three Acts
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Thornton Niven Wilder (17 April 1897 – 7 December 1975) was an American playwright and novelist. His best known work is his play Our Town.
- Name At Birth:
- Thornton Niven Wilder
- Birth Date:
- April 17, 1897
- Birthplace:
- Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- Death Date:
- December 07, 1975
- Place of Death:
- Hamden, Connecticut, USA
- Partner:
- Samuel Steward
- Occupation:
- Playwright, novelist
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