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Known today primarily as the author of Our Town, probably America’s most beloved and widely produced play, Thornton Wilder is the only writer ever to be honored with Pulitzer Prizes in both fiction and drama. This collection of interviews with Wilder covers the full range of his sixty-year career as one of America’s leading men of letters. Known today primarily as the author of Our Town, probably America’s most beloved and widely produced play, Thornton Wilder is the only writer ever to be honored with Pulitzer Prizes in both fiction and drama. This collection of interviews with Wilder covers the full range of his sixty-year career as one of America’s leading men of letters. In addition to American interviews, this book includes translations of interviews published originally in French and German that have never appeared in English previously. It includes a transcription of a rare radio interview conducted by Rex Stout and an extensive Paris Review conversation between Wilder and Richard H. Goldston, his first biographer. Throughout this book is a sense of Wilder’s boundless curiosity, his wit, his unflagging energy, his friendships with a range of celebrities such as Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and Gene Tunney, and above all, the multitude of subjects on which he conversed easily and brilliantly. Conversations with Thornton Wilder provides a close-up encounter with Wilder as novelist, playwright, actor, director, teacher, scholar, world traveler, musician, raconteur, and friend of the famous. The earliest interview included was given in 1928, when his most acclaimed and commercially successful novel, The Bridge at San Luis Rey, won him his first Pulitzer Prize. From the 1930s and 1940s come Wilder’s comments on his two celebrated plays, Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, both Pulitzer winners. In the last three decades of his life, Wilder returned to the novel form ( The Eighth Day won the National Book Award) while continuing to write plays and to give his opinions on theater-in-the-round, the hippie movement, movies and television, and Communism.

Langue

en

Version

Broché

Date de sortie initiale

30 janvier 1992

Nombre de pages

156

Illustrations

Non

Personnes impliquées

Auteur principal

Jackson R. Bryer

Rédacteur en chef

Jackson R. Bryer

Editeur principal

University Press Of Mississippi

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Nom du fabricant

Easy Access System Europe

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Hauteur de l’emballage

19 mm

Hauteur du produit

12 mm

Largeur d’emballage

152 mm

Largeur du produit

153 mm

Livre d‘étude

Oui

Longueur d’emballage

229 mm

Longueur du produit

229 mm

Poids de l’emballage

272 g

Police de caractères extra large

Non

EAN

EAN

9780878055142

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Poésie, anthologies et littérature

Science de la littérature

Scène et théâtre

1900 à 2000

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Langue

Anglais

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Paperback