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Thornton Wilder
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Thornton Wilder

Creator · born April 17, 1897 · died 1975

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Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day.

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  1. ~41Received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama1938
  2. ~44Became president1941
  3. 60Received the Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' AssociationOctober 6, 1957
  4. ~66Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom1963
  5. ~71Received the National Book Award1968

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