Lifting Every Roof : A profile of Thornton Wilder.(Review)

World and I | April 1, 2000| | Copyright

Linda Simon is associate professor of English at Skidmore College. She is the author of Thornton Wilder: His World (19??) and, most recently, of Genuine Reality: A Life of William James (Harcourt Brace, 1998).

The play Our Town, a perennial favorite for high school theater classes and local repertory groups, has given Thornton Wilder a reputation not unlike that of Norman Rockwell: celebrant of small-town America, sentimental, nostalgic--perhaps a bit trite--and unabashedly appealing to the masses. Some readers, though, may recall other works that make it more ...

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