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, 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 give his opinions on
theater-in-the-round, the hippie movement, movies and television,
and Communism.
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