We thank our promotional partners: The Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers (ALSCW) the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Concord Theatricals Miami New Drama NYU/Skirball Center the Thornton Wilder Estate the Writers Guild Foundation. We join Tappan Wilder, Thornton Wilder’s nephew and literary executor director Michel Hausmann, creator of Miami’s acclaimed trilingual production in Spanish, Haitian Creole, and English and the Sorbonne’s Julie Vatain-Corfdir, translator and director of a French production, for a conversation about the twenty-first-century global rediscovery of Wilder’s greatest play. How is it that this quintessentially American masterpiece continues to resonate so profoundly in places where both “our” and “town” mean radically different things? May 3, 2022-Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning play about the town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, is one of the most-produced classics in the American repertory. Wilder died in 1975.Our Town for Our Time: How Thornton Wilder’s Play Speaks to a Changing America and Around the World LOA Live: A conversation with Tappan Wilder, Michel Hausmann, and Julie Vatain-Corfdir In 1965, Wilder was awarded the first National medal for Literature. Wilder's other plays include The Merchant of Yonkers (1938), which was revised as The Matchmaker (1954) and adapted, by others, into the successful musical Hello Dolly! (1963), and Plays for Bleecker Street (1962), one-act plays from his projected "Seven Ages of Man" and "Seven Deadly Sins" cycles. His most famous plays are Our Town (1938), which was filmed in 1940 and reproduced as a TV musical in 1955 The Skin of Our Teeth (1942), a Pulitzer Prize. Wilder won his third Pulitzer with The Skin of Our Teeth (1942 Pulitzer), which many likened to James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Wilder did not achieve critical recognition as a playwright until the production of his second full length play Our Town (1938 Pulitzer). during the summer of 1929.Īlthough he had written one-act plays, including The Angel That Troubled the Waters (1928) and The Long Christmas Dinner (1931).
Among his other novels are The Cabala (1926), The Woman of Andros (1930), Heaven's My Destination (1934), The Ides of March (1948), The Eight Day (1967), an old-fashioned saga about two families that is also a mystery story and an exploration of chance and human destiny, and Theophilus North (1973), a comic account of the experiences of an unusual young man living in Newport, R.I.
Wilder's first important literary work was the novel The Bridge of San Lius Rey (1927 Pulitzer), which probes the lives of victims of a bridge disaster in Peru. His plays, like his novels, usually maintain that true meaning and beauty found in ordinary experience. He receieved most of his early education in China, where his father was in the American consular service. Three time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and novelist Thronton Wilder was born in 1897 in Madison, Wisconsi.
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