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 plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth — and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day.
“The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.”