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PRINCIPAL WORKS

The Trumpet Shall Sound 1926

The Angel That Troubled the Waters, and Other Plays 1928

The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden 1931

The Long Christmas Dinner, and Other Plays in One Act 1931

The Merchant of Yonkers: A Farce in Four Acts 1938; revised as The Matchmaker, 1955

Our Town 1938

The Skin of Our Teeth 1942

A Life in the Sun [also produced as The Alcestiad] 1955

Bernice 1957

The Wreck of the 5:25 1957

Plays for Bleecker Street 1962

Pullman Car Hiawatha 1964

The Cabala (novel) 1926

The Bridge of San Luis Rey (novel) 1927

The Woman of Andros (novel) 1930

We Live Again [with Maxwell Anderson, Leonard Praskins, and Preston Sturges] (screenplay) 1934

Heaven's My Destination (novel) 1935

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism: Author Commentary
   1. Thornton Wilder and John Franchey (interview date 13 August 1939)
4. Criticism: Our Town (1938)
   1. Hap Erstein (review date 23 November 1990)
   2. T. H. McCulloh (review date 2 April 1993)
   3. Malcolm Johnson (review date 23 July 1994)
   4. T. H. McCulloh (review date 9 December 1995)
   5. Critical Commentary
   6. Arthur H. Ballet (essay date 1956)
   7. Francis Fergusson (essay date 1956)
   8. George D. Stephens (essay date February 1959)
   9. Helmut Papajewski (essay date 1961)
   10. Winfield Townley Scott (essay date 1961)
   11. Malcolm Goldstein (essay date 1965)
   12. Donald Haberman (essay date 1967)
   13. Jan Austell (essay date 1968)
   14. Michael A. D'Ambrosio (essay date October 1971)
   15. John V. Hagopian and Arvin R. Wells (essay date 1971)
   16. Donald Haberman (essay date 1996)
   17. Bert Cardullo (essay date September 1998)
5. Further Reading
6. Copyright

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