His screenplay for Hitchcock’s Shadow of the Doubt is considered to be a masterpiece. He worked as a lecturer, translator from French, opera librettist, actor, and screenwriter. He was very successful in other fields related to his work as well. He was awarded his second Pulitzer Prize for the play Our Town in 1938, and the third one for The Skin of Our Teeth in 1943. He became a literary star and befriended Ernest Hemingway, F. This allowed him to resign from the Lawrenceville School in 1928. In 1927, The Bridge of San Luis Rey brought him commercial success and his first Pulitzer Prize in 1928. In 1926 his first novel, The Cabala, was published. After graduating, Wilder studied in Rome, Italy, and then taught French at the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. While still a student he wrote his first play, The Russian Princess (1912–13), which was produced at Thacher School, and is believed to be his earliest play. And he would retire at the library, his hideaway, learning to distance himself from humiliation and indifference.' Earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in literature at Yale University in 1920, he continued his studies at Princeton University and obtained a Master of Arts degree in French in 1926. According to a classmate, 'we left him alone.

Wilder began writing plays while at Thacher School in Ojai, California, where he did not fit in and was teased by classmates as overly intellectual. American playwright, novelist and short-story writer Thornton Wilder (1897–1975) was born into a diplomatic family that frequently moved house and travelled around the world.

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