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When Mr. Wilder was asked about "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" and his literary plans for the future, the author said, "The book was written between the duties of a teacher at a preparatory school in Lawrenceville, New Jersey under the growing feeling that its subject matter and the catastrophe of the opening page would forever cut it off from a wide circle of friends. At present I have finished about a quarter of a work to be entitled "The Woman of Andros," my first novel--in the sense that the others were collections of novelettes. The new book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thornton Wilder Sees Development of Narrative Novel Into New Form-Calls Style "By-Product of Personality" | 3/19/1929 | See Source »

Amos Parker Wilder, 67, father of Thornton Niven (Bridge of San Luis Rey) Wilder, retired last week as associate editor of the New Haven Journal-Courier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 4, 1929 | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...land* are walled by mountains which majestically echoed the salutes and counter-salutes of nations as the Maryland steamed in. Motors waited in Callao to carry the Hoovers up to Lima, perhaps the best U.S.-advertised city in South America, thanks to its non-existent Bridge of San Luis Rey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fifteenth Crossing | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...Claire Ambler, Booth Tarkington, Giants in the Earth, O. E. Rolvaag. Etched in Moonlight, James Stephens, Red Rust, Cornelia J. Cannon, Julius--"A Gentleman With a Duster" Tinker's Leave, Maurice Baring. Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather. Gallions Reach, H. M. Tomlinson. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder. Carry on, Jeeves, P. G. Wodehouse. Leave It to Psmith, P. G. Wodehouse. No Other Tiger, A. E. W. Mason. The Crook's Shadow, J. Jefferson Farjeon. The Portrait Invisible, Joseph Gollomb. 2 L. O., Walter S. Masterman. The Shot on the Downs, Victor L. Whitechurch. Tracks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: As He Likes It | 6/13/1928 | See Source »

Novel, Thornton Niven Wilder, for his Bridge of San Luis Rey (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pulitzer Prizes | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

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