Years later, Peterborough would return the compliment. Wilder spent his summers in Peterborough, New Hampshire, and he aimed to capture its simple charms in his characterization of the fictional Grover's Corners. THIS FICTIONAL TOWN IS BASED ON A REAL PLACE. Bryer wrote, "Wilder presents ordinary people who make the human race seem worth preserving and represent the universality of human existence." 3. In his 1992 book Conversations with Thornton Wilder, English professor Jackson R. Set in the humble hamlet of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, the play follows the relationship of young lovers Emily Webb and George Gibbs, who meet, marry, and separate over the course of 1901 to 1913. OUR TOWN IS A SIMPLE STORY ABOUT EVERYDAY AMERICANS. And because Alfred Hitchcock was such an admirer of Our Town, the iconic director hired Wilder to work on the script for his 1943 thriller Shadow of a Doubt.
Wilder also wrote screenplays for silent films. His third Pulitzer came in 1943, when his play The Skin of Our Teeth won the drama prize.
Ten years later, Our Town won Wilder his second Pulitzer, and first in the drama category.
His 1927 novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey was a commercial success and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1928. Today, Wilder is considered a titan of 20th-century American literature-and he's the only person to have won the Pulitzer Prize for both literature and drama. OUR TOWN IS WILDER'S MOST POPULAR OF HIS MANY NOVELS AND PLAYS. Yet, there was a time when its content felt downright revolutionary. The American playwright's delicate tale of small town American families at the turn of the 20th century is alive with humanity and poetry.
The Matchmaker, a dazzling farce about money and love, stars the irrepressible busybody Dolly Gallagher Levi, who leads young and old on an adventure that changes their lives.For 80 years, Thornton Wilder's Our Town has awed audiences. The Skin of our Teeth, Wilder's brilliant and enduring romp about human follies and human endurance starring the Antrobus family of Excelsior, New Jersey, earned Wilder his third Pulitzer Prize in 1943. Our Town, Wilder's timeless Pulitzer Prize-winning classic about love, death, and destiny, opened on Broadway in 1938 and continues to be celebrated and performed on stages all around the world. This essential compendium includes a preface by the author, as well as a foreword by playwright John Guare. as long as there are people around who are willing to sit in something called a theater and be reminded of their common humanity.” -New York Timesįrom celebrated Pulitzer Prize-winning author and playwright Thornton Wilder, three of the greatest plays in American literature together in one volume: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker.
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