Wilder, Thornton

The story of a small New England town fraught with human drama, family conflict, marriage, life and death.

George Marvin Brush, a traveling textbook salesman, is determined to lead a good life, despite the Great Depression.

A novel by Thorton Wilder that is part autobiographical and part the imagined adventures of his twin brother who died at birth, in which Theophilus North sets out to see the world in the summer of 1926.

More than 300 pieces of correspondence, taken from 7,000 that were gathered around the world, provide insight into Pulitzer Prize winning author Thornton Wilder's life and the people he connected with, including his family, Walt Disney, FDR, Elizabeth Taylor, Ernest Hemingway, Leonard Bernstein and more. The letters are presented chronologically and follow a brief biographical introduction to Mr. Wilder.