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Thornton Wilder

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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 US National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day.

title	form	genre	written	owned
The Cabala	novel	(undefined)	1926
The Bridge of San Luis Rey	novel	tragedy	1927
The Woman of Andros	novel	(undefined)	1930
The Long Christmas Dinner	play	(undefined)	1931
The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden	play	(undefined)	1931
The Merchant of Yonkers	play	comedy	1938
Our Town	play	(undefined)	1938
The Skin of Our Teeth	play	comedy	1942
The Ides of March	novel	historical	1948
The Eighth Day	novel	(undefined)	1967
Theophilus North	novel	(undefined)	1973

award	category	for	year
Pulitzer Prize	Novel	The Bridge of San Luis Rey	1928
Pulitzer Prize	Drama	Our Town	1938
Pulitzer Prize	Drama	The Skin of Our Teeth	1943
National Book Award (US)	Fiction	The Eighth Day	1968

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