Wilder, Thornton (Niven)
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Wilder, Thornton (Niven) (1897–1975), American novelist and dramatist. His novels include
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) and
The Ides of March (1948). He scored considerable success in the theatre with
Our Town (1938),
The Skin of Our Teeth (1942), and
The Merchant of Yonkers (1938), a comedy which was revised as
The Matchmaker (1954) and adapted as the musical comedy
Hello, Dolly! (1963).
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Amos Niven Wilder, 97; author, poet, Harvard Divinity professor
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/7/1993; 564 words
; Amos Niven Wilder, poet, author, professor of divinity...Divinty School, and brother of the late Thornton Wilder, died Saturday of cancer. He was 97...and the works of his younger brother, Thornton, merged with his biblical studies in...
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Lifting Every Roof : A profile of Thornton Wilder.(Review)
Magazine article from: World and I; 4/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...College. She is the author of Thornton Wilder: His World (19??) and, most...local repertory groups, has given Thornton Wilder a reputation not unlike...find seven puzzled hearts." Thornton Niven Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin...
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The enthusiast: a life of Thornton Wilder.
Magazine article from: National Review; 6/1/1984; ; 700+ words
; The Enthusiast: A Life of Thornton Wilder IT IS AN odd experience to learn...Michael Gold took exception to Thornton Wilder's novel The Woman of...of civic pieties gave birth to Thornton Niven Wilder on April 17, 1897. He...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/7/1999; 339 words
; ...1817; John Flaxman, sculptor, 1826; Ferdinand-Marie, Vicomte de Lesseps, engineer and diplomat, 1894; Thornton Niven Wilder, novelist, 1975; Robert Ranke Graves, poet, 1985; Kathleen Harrison, actress, 1995. On this day: the...
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Gazette: Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/17/1999; 700+ words
; ...Sir (Charles) Leonard Woolley, archaeologist, 1880; Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, Russian leader, 1894; Thornton Niven Wilder, novelist and playwright, 1897; Lindsay Gordon Anderson, film, television and theatre director, 1923. Deaths...
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DEATHS
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/7/1993; 531 words
; ...The Lady Gambles" and "The Web." AMOS N. WILDER Divinity Professor Amos Niven Wilder, 97, a literary critic, poet and former...the life and times of his younger brother, Thornton Wilder. DONALD A. BERRETH CDC Spokesman Donald A...
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Too Many Productions To Count.
Newspaper article from: Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT); 8/26/2007; 700+ words
; ...Aug. 26--A. Tappan Wilder, nephew of the playwright...reviews so mixed that Wilder decided to take the bus...However, a musical of Wilder's "The Matchmaker...founding president of the Thornton Wilder Society) had...Wilder says Penelope Niven is writing a major biography...
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Actress Teresa Wright, 86; Won Oscar in 'Mrs. Miniver'
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/9/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Provincetown, Mass., to understudy in Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" on Broadway to ingenue...Westerns written by her first husband, Niven Busch: "Pursued" (1947) with...Kelly Busch of Clinton, Conn., and Niven Terence Busch of Indianapolis; and...
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The discoverer of death
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 1/5/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...J.K. Galbraith, Joe Meehan, Thornton Wilder, Bill and Babe Paley, and so on. Truman...success. At 42 he had surpassed even his wildest ambitions. He had escaped his troubled...at the corner of the ballroom as David Niven, Gina Lollobrigida and William F. Buckley...
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DIRECTOR JOHN HUSTON: THE GENUINE ARTICLE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 8/29/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...Rhode Island to star in his son Danny's adaptation of Thornton Wilder's "Theophilus North." However, early in the shooting...and "Casino Royale," the strange film with David Niven, Peter Sellers and Woody Allen all playing James Bond...
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Thornton Niven Wilder
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Thornton Niven Wilder Novelist and playwright Thornton Niven Wilder (1897-1975) won two Pulitzer Prizes for his plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, written in 1938 and 1942 respectively. His most renowned novel, The Bridge of San Luis...
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Wilder, Thornton (Niven)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Wilder, Thornton [Niven] (1897–1975), playwright. The popular, broad...ordinary people and seem to grow richer over time. Biography: Thornton Wilder: An Intimate Portrait , Richard H. Goldstone, 1975.
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Wilder, Thornton Niven
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Wilder, Thornton Niven (1897–1975), American novelist and dramatist. Among...Tallulah Bankhead in New York and Vivien Leigh in London. Perhaps Wilder's most popular work was his adaptation of one of Nestroy's farces...
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Amos Niven Wilder
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Amos Niven Wilder The American New Testament...the 20th century. Amos Niven Wilder was born on September...Prize-winning writer Thornton Wilder was his brother...and work of his brother, Thornton Wilder. Before his death...
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Wilder, Thornton
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
Thornton Wilder Born: April 17, 1897Madison, WisconsinDied...and novelist Novelist and playwright Thornton Wilder won two Pulitzer Prizes for his...a Pulitzer Prize in 1927. Childhood Thornton Niven Wilder was born on April 17, 1897...
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