elcome to the official Thornton Wilder Society Web site, dedicated to preserving and expanding the legacy of Thornton Wilder, a three time Pulitzer Prize winner and the only winner for both fiction and drama.
Thornton Wilder as Mr. Antrobus in his 1942 play The Skin of Our Teeth.
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Bibliography
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Our Town Study Guide
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SUCH THINGS ONLY HAPPEN IN BOOKS, an evening of Thornton Wilder Short Plays, Keen Company, NYC, October 6 - November 14, 2009
OUR TOWN, Barrow Street Theatre, NYC, extended to January 31, 2010 |
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"WILDER IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY"
First International Thornton Wilder Conference
October 2-4, 2008
The College of New Jersey
Ewing Township, NJ
The conference has come and gone with great success but for those interested in learning about the participants, the papers presented, etc. click below.
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Check back this fall for CFPs for Wilder panels at 2010 ALA in San Francisco in May and an American Drama conference at Kean College in New Jersey in Fall 2010.
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The 2008 issue was devoted to "Wilder in the Twenty-first Century," the first international Thornton Wilder conference (see above). The 2009 issue will be published in September with its usual content of articles, interviews, photographs, and a short story by Wilder. Join TWS and receive your copy free!
Now available: the complete interview with David Hammond, the director of Thornton Wilder's adaptation of A Doll's House; click here to read it.
Read articles on a variety of Wilder-related topics.
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Barrow Street Our Town reviewed in The New York Times
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Question: Which video or DVD version of Our Town do you recommend?
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