Happy Birthday, Thornton Wilder
Apr. 17th, 2006 04:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkertomIn 1897. Wrote a bunch of stuff, but is best known for The Bridges of San Luis Rey, Our Town, and The Merchant of Yonkers, which was eventually revised to The Matchmaker (which was eventually adapted into Hello, Dolly!). National Book Award, two Pulitzers, Presidential Medal of Freedom.
The fascinating factoid of the day regarding Mr. Wilder is that, while writing the first act of Our Town, he had a severe case of writer's block. Would that I ever should have such a case.
So, have any of you not seen Our Town at some point in your life, and how many of you have been in it?
The fascinating factoid of the day regarding Mr. Wilder is that, while writing the first act of Our Town, he had a severe case of writer's block. Would that I ever should have such a case.
So, have any of you not seen Our Town at some point in your life, and how many of you have been in it?
