Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder
Wilder in 1948
Born	Thornton Niven Wilder (1897-04-17)April 17, 1897 Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.
Died	December 7, 1975(1975-12-07) (aged 78) Hamden, Connecticut, U.S.
Occupation	Playwright novelist
Education	Oberlin College Yale University (BA) Princeton University (MA)
Notable works	The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) Our Town (1938) The Skin of Our Teeth (1942)
Notable awards	Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (1927) Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1938, 1942) Edward MacDowell Medal (1960) National Book Award for Fiction (1968)
Relatives	Thornton M. Niven

Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day.