Welcome to the
Thornton Wilder Family Website

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Welcome to this new website devoted principally to the American writer Thornton Wilder, as well as the lives and published works of Amos, Isabel and Charlotte Wilder, and Janet Wilder Dakin, Thornton's brother and three sisters, all of whom were also writers.

We invite you to visit frequently as our site will continue to develop on a daily basis. In addition to text, we will be adding audio and video features as well as more visual images and much more.

Stay tuned and enjoy!

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"I'm under the impression that I lead a charmed life: either my clothes never wrinkle or other people never notice it." --1964

"The extravagances we commit under passion seem to have little effect on the life of the soul, but the remorse that follows them is its very food." --circa 1926

"Wilder's Law No. 401: You can always communicate with some else, if you don't talk about yourself." -- July 25, 1969

"Wit is the permitted suspension of decorum and the retaliation of the underdog." --January 8, 1939

"Success is paralyzing only to those who have never wished for anything else." -- circa 1956

"All art is didactic. 'Come in for the Beauty,' says the artist, 'and stay for the Persuasion."' --circa 1930's

"We have to kick the proscenium down."
-- 1961