The enthusiast: a life of Thornton Wilder.

National Review | June 1, 1984| | Copyright

The Enthusiast: A Life of Thornton Wilder

IT IS AN odd experience to learn that the author of Our Town and The Matchmaker was once attacked for ignoring American subject matter in favor of dimly imagined classical worlds full of "little lavender tragedies.' But those are the grounds on which a leftwing writer named Michael Gold took exception to Thornton Wilder's novel The Woman of Andros in the pages of The New Republic in 1930. Although one tends to forget it, Wilder was indeed almost as likely to set his works in Rome or Peru as in Grover's Corners or Yonkers. ...

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