Works

Wilder Cover Collage

Click on any underlined title below for an article with plot summary, critical analysis, and selected bibliography, or other information about the work.

Novels
1926 The Cabala
1927 The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1930 The Woman of Andros
1935 Heaven’s My Destination
1948 The Ides of March
1967 The Eighth Day
1973 Theophilus North
Full-length Plays
1938 Our Town
A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen: An Acting Version by Thornton Wilder
1942 The Skin of Our Teeth
1955 The Matchmaker: revised from the Merchant of Yonkers
The Alcestiad
Short Plays
1928 The Angel That Troubled the Waters and other Plays
1931 The Long Christmas Dinner and Other Plays in One Act
— The Long Christmas Dinner
— Queens of France
— Pullman Car Hiawatha
— Love and How to Cure It
— Such Things Only Happen in Books
— The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden
1962 Plays for Bleeker Street
— Someone from Assisi
— Infancy
— Childhood
Screenwriting
1942 Shadow of a Doubt
Essays
1979 American Characteristics and Other Essays
Letters
1996 The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder
2001 A Tour of the Darkling Plain: The Finnegans Wake Letters of Thornton Wilder and Adaline Glasheen
2008 The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder
Collections
1997 The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder Volume I
1998 The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder Volume II
2007 Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays and Writings on Theater
2009 Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels 1926-1948
2012 Thornton Wilder: The Eigth Day, Theophilus North, Autobiographical Writings