Thornton Wilder contemplates ordinary life events (birth, family life, marriage, and death), mostly through one character, a young woman, Emily Webb, who leads an unexamined life until she encounters death.
Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. He received three Pulitzer Prizes, one for his novel *The Bridge of San Luis Rey* and two for his plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a National Book Award for his novel *The Eighth Day*.
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[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornton_Wilder
