6/25/2023 0 Comments Thornton wilder 1938![]() “He was wildly buoyant,” said Tappan Wilder. But seeing him as the cloistered, reclusive writer isn’t right, either. Though famous, Wilder wasn’t particularly interested in his own fame. “It was pretty exciting, I can tell you, when he’d come to visit! We lived in Chicago and then Boston. “He used to blow into town,” Tappan Wilder recalled. Perhaps as important to Thornton Wilder’s professional legacy are the younger Wilder’s personal, unique remembrances of the man himself.īorn in 1940, Tappan was a teenager in the mid ‘50s when it dawned on him that this might not be just any ordinary uncle. Helping propel these events is Tappan Wilder, the affable nephew of the writer and his literary executor. They include a new Broadway production of his other major stage comedy, “The Skin of Our Teeth” the first-ever production of an unfinished play called “The Emporium,” and the recent release of a recent, short documentary called “Thornton Wilder: It’s Time.” This year marks the 125th anniversary of Wilder’s birth and beyond SCR’s “Our Town,” several events this year are shining a light on the writer’s works. ![]() A brief example of Wilder’s significance is that he remains the only multiple Pulitzer Prize winner to claim the award for writing in different forms, both as a novelist and a playwright. This is strictly a factor of time passing than his accomplishments falling by the wayside. ![]() Quite a bit less connected to today’s times is the man who wrote the play, Thornton Wilder himself. ![]()
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