Thornton Wilder letters (RLC.Ms.562)

Biographical note

Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) was born on April 17, 1897, in Madison, Wisconsin, and went on to become a successful American novelist, dramatist, and academic. He is the only writer to receive the Pulitzer Prize for both novels and plays. Among his best-known works are the novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, and the play, Our Town. Wilder died at his home in Hamden, Connecticut, where he had lived with his younger sister, Isabel Wilder (1900-1995) for many years, on December 7, 1975.