Thornton Wilder and His Public

Thornton Wilder, three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, remains to many people an enigma. Malcolm Cowley indicated that "e;in point of intelligent criticism, Wilder is the most neglected author of a brilliant generation,"e; and the Times Literary Supplement once observed that "e;Thornton Wilder has successfully resisted any kind of classification as a novelist or playwright."e;In this revealing,...