Finding the theatre of the 1920s lacking in bite and conviction, Thornton Wilder set out to bring back realism and to celebrate the innocent, simple and religious. Yet he also tried to endow individual experience with cosmic significance and Our Town is both an affectionate portrait of American life and an attempt to find a value above all price for the smallest events in our daily life.
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(Madison, Wisconsin, 1897 - Hamden, Connecticut, 1975) Ha sido el único escritor honrado con el premio Pulitzer en narrativa, por su novela El puente de San Luis Rey, y en teatro, por Nuestra ciudad y por The skin of our teeth.