Thornton Wilder

1 summaryLiterary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Spirituality

Thornton Niven Wilder 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.

Books by Thornton Wilder

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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder
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After a bridge collapses, a monk spends a decade investigating the lives of the five victims, hoping to prove divine intervention and understand the connections of fate and love.