Thornton Wilder

<p><strong><em>Thornton Wilder: A Life</em> brings readers face to face with the extraordinary man who made words come alive around the world on the stage and on the page. --James Earl Jones actor</strong></p><p><strong>Comprehensive and wisely fashioned....A splendid and long needed work. --Edward Albee playwright</strong></p><p>Thornton Wilder--three-time Pulitzer Prize winner creator of such enduring stage works as <em>Our Town</em> and <em>The Skin of Our Teeth</em> and beloved novels like <em>Bridge of San Luis Ray</em> and <em>Theophilus North</em>--was much more than a pivotal figure in twentieth century American theater and literature. He was a world-traveler a student a teacher a soldier an actor a son a brother and a complex intensely private man who kept his personal life a secret. In <em>Thornton Wilder: A Life</em> author Penelope Niven pulls back the curtain to present a fascinating three-dimensional portrait one of America's greatest playwrights novelists and literary icons.</p>