{"product_id":"conversations-with-thornton-wilder-jackson-r-bryer-9780878055142","title":"Conversations with Thornton Wilder","description":"Known today primarily as the author of \u003ci\u003eOur Town\u003c\/i\u003e, probably America's most beloved and widely produced play, Thornton Wilder is the only writer ever to be honored with Pulitzer Prizes in both fiction and drama. This collection of interviews with Wilder covers the full range of his sixty-year career as one of America's leading men of letters. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn addition to American interviews, this book includes translations of interviews published originally in French and German that have never appeared in English previously. It includes a transcription of a rare radio interview conducted by Rex Stout and an extensive \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e conversation between Wilder and Richard H. Goldston, his first biographer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThroughout this book is a sense of Wilder's boundless curiosity, his wit, his unflagging energy, his friendships with a range of celebrities such as Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and Gene Tunney, and above all, the multitude of subjects on which he conversed easily and brilliantly. \u003ci\u003eConversations with Thornton Wilder\u003c\/i\u003e provides a close-up encounter with Wilder as novelist, playwright, actor, director, teacher, scholar, world traveler, musician, raconteur, and friend of the famous. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe earliest interview included was given in 1928, when his most acclaimed and commercially successful novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Bridge at San Luis Rey\u003c\/i\u003e, won him his first Pulitzer Prize. From the 1930s and 1940s come Wilder's comments on his two celebrated plays, \u003ci\u003eOur Town\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Skin of Our Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e, both Pulitzer winners. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the last three decades of his life, Wilder returned to the novel form (\u003ci\u003eThe Eighth Day\u003c\/i\u003e won the National Book Award) while continuing to write plays and to give his opinions on theater-in-the-round, the hippie movement, movies and television, and Communism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jackson R. Bryer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0878055142\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780878055142\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 6.06w x 0.51d","brand":"Jackson R. Bryer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947437195519,"sku":"9780878055142","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_51c5746f-2503-4aeb-b4b6-b9d029b1ea7c.jpg?v=1681518720","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/conversations-with-thornton-wilder-jackson-r-bryer-9780878055142","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}