Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder was an American playwright and novelist who died in 1975. He is best known for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, each of which won a Pulitzer Prize, and for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey, which earned a third. The Bridge follows a Franciscan monk who sets out to learn why five travelers died when an old bridge in 1714 Peru collapsed. Wilder also received a National Book Award for his novel The Eighth Day.