elcome to the official Thornton Wilder Society Web site, dedicated to preserving and expanding the legacy of Thornton Wilder, a three time Pulitzer Prize winner and the only winner for both fiction and drama.

Thornton Wilder as Mr. Antrobus in his 1942 play The Skin of Our Teeth.

 

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Bibliography
Books and Articles about Wilder's Works

Beinecke Research Grants
Yale Fellowships for Wilder Scholars

Our Town Study Guide
For Teachers and Students

Scholarly Exchange Bulletin Board
For Wilder Scholars

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The Society website is hosted at The College of New Jersey in Ewing, NJ.

              

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OUR TOWN, Great Plains Theatre, Abilene, KS, October 31-November 16, 2008

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"WILDER IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY"

First International Thornton Wilder Conference

October 2-4, 2008

The College of New Jersey

Ewing Township, NJ

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Call for Paper Proposals on Adaptations of or by Thornton Wilder, ALA, May 21-24, 2009

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The 2007 issue of The Thornton Wilder Society Newsletter is now available to Society members.  Click here to view the table of contents »

The 2008 issue will be devoted to "Wilder in the Twenty-first Century," the first international Thornton Wilder conference (see above), and will be distributed later this year. Join today and receive your copy free!

Now available: the complete interview with David Hammond, the director of Thornton Wilder's adaptation of A Doll's House; click here to read it.

 

 

Read articles on a variety of Wilder-related topics.

 

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Historian David McCullough influenced by Thornton Wilder.

 

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Question:   Which video or DVD version of Our Town do you recommend?

 

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