"Thornton Wilder: A Life brings readers face to face with the extraordinary man who made words come alive around the world, on the stage and on the page." --James Earl Jones, actor "Comprehensive and wisely fashioned....This book is a splendid and long needed work."--Edward Albee, playwright Thornton Wilder--three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, creator of such enduring stage works as Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and beloved novels like Bridge of San Luis Ray and Theophilus North--was much more than a pivotal figure in ...
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"Thornton Wilder: A Life brings readers face to face with the extraordinary man who made words come alive around the world, on the stage and on the page." --James Earl Jones, actor "Comprehensive and wisely fashioned....This book is a splendid and long needed work."--Edward Albee, playwright Thornton Wilder--three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, creator of such enduring stage works as Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and beloved novels like Bridge of San Luis Ray and Theophilus North--was much more than a pivotal figure in twentieth century American theater and literature. He was a world-traveler, a student, a teacher, a soldier, an actor, a son, a brother, and a complex, intensely private man who kept his personal life a secret. In Thornton Wilder: A Life, author Penelope Niven pulls back the curtain to present a fascinating, three-dimensional portrait one of America's greatest playwrights, novelists, and literary icons.
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Much has been written about Thornton Niven Wilder but by no one who has had such open access to family archives. Despite the early release concern that the author Penelope Niven would be concealing important issues, she has in fact brought back to life, Thornton Wilder. Her text is engaging and her grasp of then contemporary issues strong. Except for the lack of correspondence on highly intimate aspects of TN Wilder's 'sex life' to inform a biographer with fact rather than innuendo, this biography will stand on it's own for very long time.
