Thornton Wilder: A Life

ISBN: 0060831375

Author: Niven, Penelope

Condition: Used

Pub Date: 2013-11-05 Pages: 864 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins Thornton Wilder: A Life. the first biography of the playwright and novelist since 1983. is based on unprecedented research: thousands of pages of letters. journals. manuscripts. and other documentary evidence of Wilders life. work. and times. Biographer Penelope Niven mined Wilders personal archives for more than a decade. and has produced a book that illuminates his professional life anew and reveals an enigmatic. intensely private man who wandered the world. writing. he said. for and about everybody. Even today. he has a global audience. His novels. including The Bridge of San Luis Rey. remain in print all over the world. His plays. especially the iconic Our Town and the Skin revolutionary of Our Teeth. are touchstones of modern theater.Richly detailed. Thornton Wilder: A Life brings one of our coun...