Welcome to the Official Website of
The Thornton Wilder Family

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Listen to Thornton Wilder's voice as he reads from Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Bridge of San Luis Rey and more...

Wilder Words of Wit and Wisdom...

Wilder on Genius:
"What is genius but combining the unexpected and the self-evident--so that at the same moment you are saying both: "How surprising!" and "How true that is!"

 --Thornton Wilder to Noel Coward, October 10, 1942

"Emerson could not imagine a universe which did not personally love Emerson." "
--Thornton Wilder, circa 1959

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