Thornton Wilder

Wilder with Hitchcock in [[Santa Rosa]]

Biography

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 two plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth — and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day.

Following his screen adaptation of Our Town, Alfred Hitchcock asked him to develop the screenplay for Shadow of a Doubt (1943) from a story outline by Gordon McDonell.

Wilder died in 1975, aged 78.

Filmography

With Hitchcock...

• Shadow of a Doubt (1943) - writer: screenplay

Links

• Internet Movie Database
• Wikipedia

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born 17/Apr/1897 Madison, Wisconsin, USA died 07/Dec/1975 Hamden, Connecticut, USA