Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder: A Life 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 actorComprehensive and wisely fashioned….This book is a splendid and long needed work.—Edward Albee playwrightThornton Wilder—three-time Pulitzer Prize winner creator of such enduring stage works asOur Town and The Skin of Our Teeth and beloved novels like Bridge of San Luis Ray and Theophilus North—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 Thornton Wilder: A Life author Penelope Niven pulls back the curtain to present a fascinating three-dimensional portrait one of America''s greatest playwrights novelists and literary icons.