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Thornton Wilder
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Thornton Wilder

1897 – 1975 · aged 78

American playwright and novelist (1897–1975)

Born
17 Apr 1897 · Madison
Died
7 Dec 1975 · New Haven
Part ofCongregationalism1722 – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 90 years
  1. 17 Apr 1897BornBorn in Madison
  2. 1914 – 1918WarWorld War I
  3. 1938AwardPulitzer Prize for Drama
  4. 1939 – 1945WarWorld War II
  5. 1941 – 1946RolePresident
  6. 1943AwardPulitzer Prize for Drama
  7. 1957AwardPeace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association
  8. 1959AwardAustrian Decoration for Science and Art
  9. 1959AwardGoethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt
  10. 1963AwardPresidential Medal of Freedom
  11. 1968AwardNational Book Award
  12. 1974AwardJames Madison Medal
  13. 7 Dec 1975DiedDied in New Haven

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1897 – 1975).

  1. 1898Spanish–American War
  2. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  3. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  4. 1917Balfour Declaration
  5. 1917February Revolution
  6. 1917October Revolution
  7. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  8. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  9. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  10. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  11. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  12. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  13. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  14. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  15. 1938Munich Agreement
  16. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  17. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  18. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  19. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  20. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  21. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  22. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  23. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  24. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  26. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  27. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  29. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  30. 1956Suez Crisis
  31. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  32. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  33. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  35. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  36. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  37. 1968Prague Spring
  38. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  39. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  40. 19741974 FIFA World Cup

Biography

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.

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