This beautiful new edition features an eyeopening Afterword written by Tappan Wilder that includes Thornton Wilder's unpublished notes and other illuminating photographs and documentary material.
Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the small village of Grover's Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a classic. It is Thornton Wilder's most renowned and most frequently performed play.
Editorial Reviews
"That an American of the present day can create with such delicacy and detachment touches the soul like a miracle. Here is quiet originally that comes from within." -Albert Einstein, in a letter to Thornton Wilder
"You are holding in your hands a great American play. Possibly the great American play." -Donald Margulies, from his Foreword
"Wilder's unfashionable insistence on embracing wonders as well as wore is both gallant and exhilarating....[Our Town] leaves us with a sense of blessing, and the unspoken but palpable command to achieve gratitude in what remains of our days on earth." -John Lahr, The New Yorker
About the Author
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) was an accomplished novelist and playwright whose works explore the connection between the commonplace and cosmic dimensions of human experience. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928 for The Bridge of San Luis Rey, the second of his seven novels, and received the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for Our Town in 1938 and The Skin of Our Teeth in 1943. Wilder's hit play The Matchmaker was adapted as the musical Hello, Dolly!. His work is widely read and produced around the world to this day, and his screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of Doubt (1943) remains a classic psycho-thriller. Wilder's many honors include the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
