Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder
Doğum	17 Nisan 1897 Madison, Wisconsin, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri
Ölüm	7 Aralık 1975 (78 yaşında) Hamden, Connecticut, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri
Meslek	Yazar
Dönem	1940–1985
Tür	Roman, kısa öykü
Önemli ödülleri	Kurgu dalında Pulitzer Ödülü, National Book Award

Thornton Niven Wilder (17 Nisan 1897 - 7 Aralık 1975), Amerikalı oyun yazarı ve romancı. The Bridge of San Luis Rey romanı ve Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth isimli oyunlarıyla üç kez Pulitzer Ödülü kazanmıştır. Ayrıca The Eighth Day romanı ile National Book Award ödülünü kazanmıştır.

Eserleri

Oyunlar

• The Trumpet Shall Sound (1926)
• The Angel That Troubled the Waters and Other Plays (1928):^[1]
  • "Nascuntur Poetae"
  • "Proserpina and the Devil"
  • "Fanny Otcott"
  • "Brother Fire"
  • "The Penny That Beauty Spent"
  • "The Angel on the Ship"
  • "The Message and Jehanne"
  • "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"
  • "Centaurs"
  • "Leviathan"
  • "And the Sea Shall Give Up Its Dead"
  • "The Servant's Name Was Malchus"
  • "Mozart and the Gray Steward"
  • "Hast Thou Considered My Servant Job?"
  • "The Flight Into Egypt"
  • "The Angel That Troubled the Waters"
• The Long Christmas Dinner and Other Plays in One Act (1931):
  • The Long Christmas Dinner
  • Queens of France
  • Pullman Car Hiawatha
  • Love and How to Cure It
  • Such Things Only Happen in Books
  • The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden
• Our Town (1938)—won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama^[2]
• The Merchant of Yonkers (1938)
• The Skin of Our Teeth (1942)—won the Pulitzer Prize^[2]
• The Matchmaker (1954)—revised from The Merchant of Yonkers
• The Alcestiad: Or, a Life in the Sun (1955)
• Childhood (1960)
• Infancy (1960)
• Plays for Bleecker Street (1962
• The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder Volume I (1997):
  • The Long Christmas Dinner
  • Queens of France
  • Pullman Car Hiawatha
  • Love and How to Cure It
  • Such Things Only Happen in Books
  • The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden
  • The Drunken Sisters
  • Bernice
  • The Wreck on the Five-Twenty-Five
  • A Ringing of Doorbells
  • In Shakespeare and the Bible
  • Someone from Assisi
  • Cement Hands
  • Infancy
  • Childhood
  • Youth
  • The Rivers Under the Earth

Romanlar

• The Cabala (1926)
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)—won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel^[3]
• The Woman of Andros (1930)—based on Andria, a comedy by Terence
• Heaven's My Destination (1935)
• Ides of March (1948)
• The Eighth Day (1967)—won the National Book Award for Fiction^[4]
• Theophilus North (1973) [reprinted as Mr. North following the appearance of the film of the same name]

Koleksiyonlar

• Wilder, Thornton (2007). McClatchy, J.D.. ed. Thornton Wilder, Collected Plays and Writings on Theater. Library of America. 172. New York: Library of America. ISBN 978-1-59853-003-2. 
• Wilder, Thornton (2009). McClatchy, J.D.. ed. Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels 1926–1948. Library of America. 194. New York: Library of America. ISBN 978-1-59853-045-2. 

İleri Okumalar

• Gottlieb, Robert (January 7, 2013). "Man of Letters: The case of Thornton Wilder". The New Yorker 88 (42): 71–76. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/01/07/man-of-letters-5. Erişim tarihi: 24 October 2014. 

Kaynakça

2. "Drama". Past winners & finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 28 March 2012.
3. "Novel". Past winners & finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 28 March 2012.
4. "National Book Awards – 1968". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 28 March 2012.
   (With essay by Harold Augenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)

Dış Bağlantılar

• Official Thornton Wilder Family Website
• The Thornton Wilder Society
• Richard H. Goldstone (Winter 1956). "Thornton Wilder, The Art of Fiction No. 16". The Paris Review. http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4887/the-art-of-fiction-no-16-thornton-wilder. 
• Thornton Wilder – Find a Grave
• Internet Broadway Database'te Thornton Wilder Retrieved on 18 May 2009
• Internet Off-Broadway Database'de Thornton Wilder
• Biography from The Thornton Wilder Society
• Today in History, The Library of Congress, April 17