THORNTON WILDER (1897-1975) is the only writer to have been awarded Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction (for The Bridge of San Luis Rey), and drama (twice, for Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth). His play The Matchmaker was adapted into the musical Hello, Dolly!, and he wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt. Wilder's many honors include the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
"A metaphysical study of love . . . [Wilder is] a new luminary in
the planetary system of literature." —The New York Times
"A masterpiece." —The New York Herald Tribune
"There are books that haunt you down the years, books that seem to
touch and stir something deep inside you. . . . The Bridge of San
Luis Rey is of this kind." —The Independent (London)
"As close to perfect a moral fable as we are ever likely to get in
American literature." —Russell Banks
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