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CategoryNovel Spotlight

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Chasing Wilder in Chicago

Thornton Wilder’s Prize-Winning The Eighth Day Celebrate the fiftieth anniversary and new edition of Wilder’s National Book Award-winning novel with 

Featured, Novel Spotlight
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Thornton Wilder’s Desert Oasis

For the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Douglas, Arizona was a place to “refresh the wells” and drive into the sunset. 

Criticism, Novel Spotlight
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Is Thornton Wilder God?

Who has nudged you lately, at your water cooler or watering hole, to ask: “Have you read Thornton Wilder’s prose masterpiece, The Bridge of San Luis Rey?” 

Novel Spotlight
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The Turret Suite of Theophilus North

Jackson Bryer and other participants of the recent Thornton Wilder Conference visited the Turret Suite at the Castle Hill Inn mentioned 

The Bridge and Hiroshima

The Bridge and Hiroshima

The article eventually interlaced six people's experiences — a structure [Hersey] had taken from The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder, the narrator of which tells the stories of a group of (invented) individuals linked only by their fate: they were all on an Inca rope bridge when it collapsed into a Peruvian ravine in 1714.

Jeremy Treglown, Notes from Hiroshima
Newsroom, Novel Spotlight
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The Nine Secret Cities of Newport, R.I.

The "Nine City" legend has its roots in Thornton Wilder's classic novel, Theophilus North, which was first published in 1973. Lace up your best sneakers. You're going to be padding around nine parallel worlds that are layered within this coastal town of only about 26,000 people.