Wilder, Thornton (Niven) 1897-1975. US
playwright and novelist. He won Pulitzer
prizes for the novel The Bridge of San Luis
Rey 1927, and for the plays Our Town 1938 and
The Skin of Our Teeth 1942. His play The
Matchmaker appeared at the Edinburgh Festival
in 1954, and as the hit musical entitled
Hello Dolly! in New York in 1964, and in
London the following year.