Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)
Auteur de Notre Petite Ville
A propos de l'auteur
One of the most honored and versatile of modern writers, Thornton Wilder combined a career as a successful novelist with work for the theater that made him one of this century's outstanding dramatists. It was an early short novel, however, that first brought him fame. The Bridge of San Luis Rey afficher plus (1927), a bestseller that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1927, is the story of a group of assorted people who happen to be on a bridge in Peru when it collapses. Ingeniously constructed and rich in its philosophical implications about fate and synchronicity, Wilder's book would seem to be the first well-known example of a formula that has become a cliche in popular literature. His attraction to classical themes is manifested in The Woman of Andros (1930), a tragedy about young love in pre-Christian Greece, and The Ides of March (1948), set in the time of Julius Caesar and told in letters and documents covering a long span of years. Heaven's My Destination (1934), is a seriocomic and picaresque story about a young book salesman traveling through the Midwest during the early years of the Great Depression.Theophilus North (1973), Wilder's last novel, disappointed many reviewers, but it provided its author with opportunities to offer some wry observations on the life of the idle rich in Newport during the summer of 1926 and to ponder in the story of his alter ego what might have happened if Wilder had stayed home, so to speak, instead of becoming Thornton Wilder. As a serious writer of fiction, Wilder's main claim rests on The Eighth Day (1967), an intellectual thriller, which the N.Y. Times called "the most substantial fiction of his career." It won the National Book Award for fiction in 1968. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de Thornton Wilder
Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays and Writings on Theater (Library of America) (2007) 191 exemplaires, 3 critiques
Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels 1926-1948 (2009) 163 exemplaires, 1 critique
Thornton Wilder: The Eighth Day / Theophilus North / Autobiographical Writings (2012) 105 exemplaires, 1 critique
The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder (Henry McBride Series in Modernism and Mo) (1996) 42 exemplaires
Il cielo è il mio destino 4 exemplaires
Drammi brevi 3 exemplaires
Atti in tre minuti per tre personaggi 3 exemplaires
The Bridge of San Luis Rey | The Ides of March 3 exemplaires
The Bridge of San Luis Rey | The Eighth Day 2 exemplaires
Plays 2 exemplaires
Piccola città: commedia in tre atti 2 exemplaires
Commedie in un atto e drammi in tre minuti 2 exemplaires
Love, and How to Cure It 2 exemplaires
1935 1ST THORNTON WILDER HEAVEN'S MY DESTINATION KANSAS CITY MISSOURI PULITZER [Hardcover] THORNTON WILDER 2 exemplaires
Obras escogidas 2 exemplaires
Piccola città 1 exemplaire
Atti in tre minuti 1 exemplaire
Le pont du roi saint Louis 1 exemplaire
A Thornton Wilder Trio. The Cabala. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. The Woman of Andros. Introduction by Malcolm Cowley 1 exemplaire
Insurgent 1 exemplaire
La donna di Andro: romanzo 1 exemplaire
Wreck on the Five-Twenty-Five, The 1 exemplaire
A ponte de São Luis Rei 1 exemplaire
TRENTON İLE CAMDEN'E MUTLU YOLCULUK 1 exemplaire
THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH / THE GLASS MENAGERIE 1 exemplaire
Our Town (HHH Production) — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
Aštuntoji diena: [romanas] 1 exemplaire
L'Ottavo giorno 1 exemplaire
The Angel That Troubled the Water 1 exemplaire
Our Town by Thornton Wilder Published by Scholastic Paperbacks 1st (first) edition (1989) Paperback 1 exemplaire
The Stories of Thornton Wilder 1 exemplaire
Idi di marzo 1 exemplaire
EL PUENTE DE SAN LUS REY 1 exemplaire
Shadow of a Doubt 1 exemplaire
Such Things Only Happen in Books 1 exemplaire
The Penny That Beauty Spent 1 exemplaire
Brother Fire 1 exemplaire
Fanny Otcott 1 exemplaire
Proserpina and the Devil 1 exemplaire
Nascuntur Poetæ 1 exemplaire
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came 1 exemplaire
Stories and Essays 1 exemplaire
Thornton Wilder Stories — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
Autumn Thunder 1 exemplaire
The Message and Jehanne 1 exemplaire
Centaurs 1 exemplaire
The Merchant of Yonkers: A Farce in Four Acts 1 exemplaire
Thornton WIlder's Our Town (featuring translated passages by Nilo Cruz and Jeff Augustin) (2020) 1 exemplaire
Our Century: A Play in Three Scenes 1 exemplaire
Leviathan 1 exemplaire
Thirteen Plays 1 exemplaire
The Flight into Egypt 1 exemplaire
Hast Thou Considered My Servant Job? 1 exemplaire
Mozart and the Gray Steward 1 exemplaire
Now The Servant's Name Was Malchus 1 exemplaire
And the Sea Shall Give Up Its Dead 1 exemplaire
Oom Pio en Camila Perichole 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contributeur — 134 exemplaires, 1 critique
Playwrights on Playwriting: The Meaning and Making of Modern Drama from Ibsen to Ionesco (1960) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 111 exemplaires, 2 critiques
One Act: Eleven Short Plays of the Modern Theater (1961) — Contributeur — 105 exemplaires, 1 critique
Gentlemen, Scholars and Scoundrels: A Treasury of the Best of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the Present (1972) — Contributeur — 56 exemplaires
Twenty One-Act Plays: An Anthology for Amateur Performing Groups (1978) — Contributeur — 37 exemplaires, 1 critique
A Treasury of the Theatre: From Henrik Ibsen to Eugène Ionesco (1963) — Contributeur — 33 exemplaires
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 3: Intelligent Family Living (1967) — Contributeur — 33 exemplaires
Hello, Dolly! Original 1964 Broadway Cast Recording (1964) — Original play — 27 exemplaires, 1 critique
Half-a-Hundred Stories for Men, Great Tales by American Writers (2005) — Contributeur — 16 exemplaires
Amerikanische Kurzgeschichten (American Short Stories) (English and German Edition) (1956) — Contributeur — 10 exemplaires
Best-in-Books: Treasure of Pleasant Valley / Best of H.T. Webster / Bridge of San Luis Rey / Think Fast Mr. Moto /… (1956) — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
The long Christmas dinner : (Das lange Weihnachtsmahl) : opera in one act ; Libretto by Thornton Wilder (1961) — Auteur — 2 exemplaires
Teatro Norteamericano contemporaneo — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
The Bridge of San Luis Rey [1944 film] — Original novel — 1 exemplaire
Teatru American Contemporan vol. 1 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
A Teacher's Guide to Our Town: Common-Core Aligned Teacher Materials and a Sample Chapter (2015) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Wilder, Thornton
- Nom légal
- Wilder, Thornton Niven
- Date de naissance
- 1897-04-17
- Date de décès
- 1975-12-07
- Lieu de sépulture
- Mount Carmel Cemetery, Hamden, Connecticut, USA
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Hamden, Connecticut, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Chefoo, China
Ojai, California, USA
Berkeley, California, USA
Douglas, Arizona, USA
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Hamden, Connecticut, USA - Études
- Princeton University (MA|French|1926)
Yale University (BA|1920)
Oberlin College
American Academy in Rome
Berkeley High School
Creekside Middle School (tout afficher 8)
China Inland Mission Chefoo School
The Thacher School - Professions
- playwright
novelist
professor
translator
librettist
teacher (tout afficher 12)
screenwriter
short-story writer
essayist
corporal (U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps, WWI)
lieutenant colonel (U.S. Army Air Force Intelligence, WWII)
actor - Relations
- Wilder, Amos Niven (brother)
Wilder, Isabel (sister)
Dakin, Janet Wilder (sister)
Wilder, A. Tappan (nephew)
Wilder, Charlotte (sister) - Organisations
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
Modern Language Association of America (honorary member)
Authors Guild
Actors Equity Association
Hispanic Society of America (corresponding member)
Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur (West Germany) (tout afficher 20)
Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts (honorary member)
Century Association
Players (honorary member)
Graduate Club
Elizabethan Club
Alpha Delta Phi
United States Army (WWI ∙ WWII)
Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton professor)
University of Chicago (professor)
Institut de Cooperation Intellectuélle ( [1937])
United States Department of State
International PEN Club Congress ( [1941])
UNESCO Conference of Arts ( [1952])
Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, USA (teacher) - Prix et distinctions
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (1963)
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1927)
Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1938, 1943)
Chevalier, Legion of Honor (1951)
National Book Committee's National Medal for Literature (1965)
Edward MacDowell Medal (1960) (tout afficher 21)
National Book Award for fiction (1968)
Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (1957)
Friedenspreis, Deutschen Buchhandels (1957)
Sonderpreis (1959)
Goethe medal (1959)
Gold Medal for Fiction, American Academy of Arts and Letters (1952)
Brandeis University Creative Arts Award for theater and film (1959-60)
Chicago Literary Hall of Fame (2013)
Medal of the Order of Merit (Peru)
Order of Merit (West Germany)
Century Association Art Medal
Honorary member of Order of the British Empire (M.B.E.)
Legion of Merit
Bronze Star
Alpha Delta Phi - Courte biographie
- Thornton Wilder was born on April 17, 1897 in Madison, Wisconsin to Isabella (Niven) Wilder and Amos Parker Wilder. He attended Oberlin College (1915-1917), received an A.B. from Yale University (1920), attended the American Academy in Rome (1920-1921), and received an A.M. from Princeton University (1926). He served in the U.S. Army from 1942-1945, receiving the Legion of Merit and Bronze Star.
Wilder is best known as an author of novels, plays, and screenplays. Among his many published novels and plays, he wrote three Pulitzer Prize winning works: The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1928), Our Town (1938), and The Skin of Our Teeth (1943). He also won the Gold Medal for fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1952), the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1963), the National Book Committee's National Medal for Literature (1965), and the National Book Award (1968).
Wilder was a lecturer in comparative literature at the University of Chicago (1930-1936), a visiting professor at the University of Hawaii (1935), and Charles Eliot Norton Professor of poetry at Harvard University (1950-1951).
Wilder received honorary degrees from New York University, Yale University, Kenyon College, College of Wooster, Harvard University, Northeastern University, Oberlin College, University of New Hampshire, and University of Zurich.
Thornton Wilder died in 1975
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 126
- Aussi par
- 53
- Membres
- 16,588
- Popularité
- #1,366
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 287
- ISBN
- 406
- Langues
- 15
- Favoris
- 22
C'est un court récit, bien écrit et qui se lit avec un réel plaisir. Une découverte de cet auteur en ce qui me concerne.