# Thornton Wilder •
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Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes—for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey, and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth — and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day.
== Early years and family ==
Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin, the son of Amos Parker Wilder, a newspaper editor and later, a U.S. diplomat, and Isabella Thornton Niven.He had five siblings.
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