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Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist. [1]

120 relations: A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, Alfred Hitchcock, Alpha Delta Phi, Alternate history, Amos Wilder, André Obey, Andria (comedy), Archaeology, Atheism, Austria, Benito Mussolini, Berkeley Daily Planet, Berkeley High School (California), Berkeley, California, Bronze Star Medal, Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, Charlotte Wilder, Chefoo School, Corporal, Disaster film, Douglas, Arizona, Einen Jux will er sich machen, Ernest Hemingway, Existentialism, Fort Adams, François Mauriac, Fredric March, Gertrude Stein, Hamden, Connecticut, HarperCollins, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, Hello, Dolly! (musical), Henry Morton Robinson, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Hu Shih, Intellectual, James Joyce, Janet Wilder Dakin, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jerry Herman, Johann Nestroy, Joseph Campbell, Julius Caesar, Lauro De Bosis, Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, Legion of Honour, Legion of Merit, Library of America, ..., Libretto, Lieutenant colonel (United States), Louise Talma, Madison, Wisconsin, Master of Arts, Max Reinhardt, Michael Stewart (playwright), Minimalism, Modernism, Montgomery Clift, Mount Holyoke College, Mr. North, Myocardial infarction, National Book Award, National Book Award for Fiction, New World Library, Oberlin College, Ojai, California, OMF International, Order of the British Empire, Our Town, Paul Hindemith, Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, PEN International, Peru, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Princeton University, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Russel Wright, Ruth Gordon, Samuel Steward, Saturday Review (U.S. magazine), September 11 attacks, Shadow of a Doubt, Stage management, Summer stock theatre, Tallulah Bankhead, Terence, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Eighth Day (novel), The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden, The Ides of March (novel), The Long Christmas Dinner, The Long Christmas Dinner (opera), The Matchmaker, The Merchant of Yonkers, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Thacher School, The Woman of Andros, Theophilus North, Theopoetics, Tony Award, Tony Blair, Tyrone Guthrie, United States Army Air Forces, United States Army Coast Artillery Corps, University of Chicago, University of Nebraska Press, Willa Cather, World War I, World War II, Writer's block, Yale University, Yantai, Zürich. Expand index (70 more) »

A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake

A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake is a 1944 work of literary criticism by mythologist Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson.

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Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema.

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Alpha Delta Phi

Alpha Delta Phi (ΑΔΦ), commonly known as Alpha Delt, ADPhi, or ADP, is a North American Greek-letter secret and social college fraternity.

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Alternate history

Alternate history or alternative history (Commonwealth English), sometimes abbreviated as AH, is a genre of fiction consisting of stories in which one or more historical events occur differently.

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Amos Wilder

Amos Niven Wilder (September 18, 1895 – May 4, 1993) was an American poet, minister, and theology professor.

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André Obey

André Obey (8 May 1892 at Douai, France – 11 April 1975 at Montsoreau, near the Loire River) was a prominent French playwright during the inter-war years, and into the 1950s.

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Andria (comedy)

Andria (English: The Girl from Andros) is a Roman comedy adapted by Terence from a Greek play by Menander.

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Archaeology

Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of humanactivity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Atheism

Atheism is, in the broadest sense, the absence of belief in the existence of deities.

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Austria

Austria (Österreich), officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich), is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.8 million people in Central Europe.

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Benito Mussolini

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 1883 – 28 April 1945) was an Italian politician and journalist who was the leader of the National Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista, PNF).

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Berkeley Daily Planet

The Berkeley Daily Planet was a free weekly newspaper published in Berkeley, California, which continues today as an internet-based news publication.

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Berkeley High School (California)

Berkeley High School is a public high school in the Berkeley Unified School District, and the only public high school in the city of Berkeley, California, United States.

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Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California.

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Bronze Star Medal

The Bronze Star Medal, unofficially the Bronze Star, is a United States decoration awarded to members of the United States Armed Forces for either heroic achievement, heroic service, meritorious achievement, or meritorious service in a combat zone.

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Charles Eliot Norton Lectures

The Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry at Harvard University was established in 1925 as an annual lectureship in "poetry in the broadest sense" and named for the university's former professor of fine arts.

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Charlotte Wilder

Charlotte Wilder (1898–1980) was an American poet and the eldest sister of author Thornton Wilder, Isabel Wilder, Janet Wilder Dakin, and Amos Wilder.

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Chefoo School

The Chefoo School, also known as Protestant Collegiate School or China Inland Mission School, was a Christian boarding school established by the China Inland Mission—under James Hudson Taylor—at Chefoo (Yantai), in Shandong province in northern China, in 1880.

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Corporal

Corporal is a military rank in use in some form by many militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations.

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Disaster film

A disaster film or disaster movie is a film genre that has an impending or ongoing disaster as its subject and primary plot device.

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Douglas, Arizona

Douglas is a city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States that lies in the north-west to south-east running San Bernardino Valley within which runs the Rio San Bernardino.

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Einen Jux will er sich machen

Einen Jux will er sich machen (1842) (He Will Go on a Spree or He'll Have Himself a Good Time), is a three-act musical play, designated as a Posse mit Gesang ("farce with singing"), by Austrian playwright Johann Nestroy first performed at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna on 10 March 1842.

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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist.

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Existentialism

Existentialism is a tradition of philosophical inquiry associated mainly with certain 19th and 20th-century European philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences,Oxford Companion to Philosophy, ed.

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Fort Adams

Fort Adams is a former United States Army post in Newport, Rhode Island that was established on July 4, 1799 as a First System coastal fortification, named for President John Adams who was in office at the time.

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François Mauriac

François Charles Mauriac (11 October 1885 – 1 September 1970) was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Académie française (from 1933), and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952).

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Fredric March

Fredric March (born Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel; August 31, 1897 – April 14, 1975) was an American actor, regarded as "one of Hollywood's most celebrated, versatile stars of the 1930s and 40s."Obituary Variety, April 16, 1975, page 95.

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Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector.

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Hamden, Connecticut

Hamden is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States.

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. is one of the world's largest publishing companies and is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster.

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Harvard Divinity School

Harvard Divinity School is one of the constituent schools of Harvard University, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Hello, Dolly! (musical)

Hello, Dolly! is a 1964 musical with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman and a book by Michael Stewart.

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Henry Morton Robinson

Henry Morton Robinson (September 7, 1898 – January 13, 1961) was an American novelist, best known for A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake written with Joseph Campbell and his 1950 novel The Cardinal, which Time magazine reported was "The year's most popular book, fiction or nonfiction.".

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is an educational and trade publisher in the United States.

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Hu Shih

Hu Shih (17 December 1891 – 24 February 1962) was a Chinese philosopher, essayist and diplomat.

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Intellectual

An intellectual is a person who engages in critical thinking, research, and reflection about society and proposes solutions for its normative problems.

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James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet.

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Janet Wilder Dakin

Janet Wilder Dakin (June 3, 1910 - October 7, 1994), was a philanthropist, zoologist and a younger sister of author Thornton Wilder and poet Charlotte Wilder.

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, political activist, biographer, and literary critic.

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Jerry Herman

Jerry Herman (born July 10, 1931) is an American composer and lyricist, known for his work in Broadway musical theater.

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Johann Nestroy

Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy (7 December 1801 – 25 May 1862) was a singer, actor and playwright in the popular Austrian tradition of the Biedermeier period and its immediate aftermath.

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Joseph Campbell

Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American Professor of Literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion.

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Julius Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar (12 or 13 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC), known by his cognomen Julius Caesar, was a Roman politician and military general who played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire.

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Lauro De Bosis

Lauro Adolfo De Bosis (Rome, 9 December 1901 – Tyrrhenian Sea, 3 October 1931) was an Italian poet, aviator, and anti-fascist.

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Lawrenceville School

The Lawrenceville School is a coeducational, independent college preparatory boarding school for students in ninth through twelfth grades including a post-graduate year as well.

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Lawrenceville, New Jersey

Lawrenceville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within Lawrence Township in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States.

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Legion of Honour

The Legion of Honour, with its full name National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit for military and civil merits, established in 1802 by Napoléon Bonaparte and retained by all the divergent governments and regimes later holding power in France, up to the present.

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Legion of Merit

The Legion of Merit (LOM) is a military award of the United States Armed Forces that is given for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services and achievements.

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Library of America

The Library of America (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature.

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Libretto

A libretto is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical.

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Lieutenant colonel (United States)

In the United States Army, U.S. Marine Corps, and U.S. Air Force, a lieutenant colonel is a field grade military officer rank just above the rank of major and just below the rank of colonel.

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Louise Talma

Louise Juliette Talma (October 31, 1906 – August 13, 1996) was an American composer.

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Madison, Wisconsin

Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Dane County.

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Master of Arts

A Master of Arts (Magister Artium; abbreviated MA; also Artium Magister, abbreviated AM) is a person who was admitted to a type of master's degree awarded by universities in many countries, and the degree is also named Master of Arts in colloquial speech.

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Max Reinhardt

Max Reinhardt (September 9, 1873 – October 30, 1943) was an Austrian-born theatre and film director, intendant, and theatrical producer.

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Michael Stewart (playwright)

Michael Stewart (August 1, 1924 – September 20, 1987) was an American playwright and librettist for the stage.

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Minimalism

In visual arts, music, and other mediums, minimalism is an art movement that began in post–World War II Western art, most strongly with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s.

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Modernism

Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Montgomery Clift

Edward Montgomery "Monty" Clift (October 17, 1920 – July 23, 1966) was an American actor.

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Mount Holyoke College

Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts college for women, in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States.

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Mr. North

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Myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to a part of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle.

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National Book Award

The National Book Awards are a set of annual U.S. literary awards.

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National Book Award for Fiction

The National Book Award for Fiction is one of four annual National Book Awards, which recognize outstanding literary work by United States citizens.

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New World Library

New World Library is a San Francisco Bay Area-based American publisher of books for adults and children.

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Oberlin College

Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio.

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Ojai, California

Ojai is a city in Ventura County in the U.S. state of California.

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OMF International

OMF International (formerly Overseas Missionary Fellowship and before 1964 the China Inland Mission) is an international and interdenominational Protestant Christian missionary society with an international centre in Singapore.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Our Town

Our Town is a 1938 metatheatrical three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder.

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Paul Hindemith

Paul Hindemith (16 November 1895 – 28 December 1963) was a prolific German composer, violist, violinist, teacher and conductor.

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Peace Prize of the German Book Trade

The Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels) is an international peace prize given yearly at the Frankfurt Book Fair in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

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PEN International

PEN International (known as International PEN until 2010) is a worldwide association of writers, founded in London in 1921 to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere.

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Peru

Peru (Perú; Piruw Republika; Piruw Suyu), officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America.

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Presidential Medal of Freedom

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is an award bestowed by the President of the United States and is—along with the comparable Congressional Gold Medal—the highest civilian award of the United States.

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is the head of the United Kingdom government.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.

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Pulitzer Prize for Drama

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Russel Wright

Russel Wright (April 3, 1904 – December 21, 1976) was an American Industrial designer during the 20th century.

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Ruth Gordon

Ruth Gordon Jones (October 30, 1896 – August 28, 1985) was an American film, stage, and television actress, as well as a screenwriter and playwright.

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Samuel Steward

Samuel Morris Steward (July 23, 1909 – December 31, 1993), also known as Phil Andros, Phil Sparrow, and many other pseudonyms, was a poet, novelist, and university professor who left the world of academia to become a tattoo artist and pornographer.

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Saturday Review (U.S. magazine)

Saturday Review, previously The Saturday Review of Literature, was an American weekly magazine established in 1924.

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September 11 attacks

The September 11, 2001 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.

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Shadow of a Doubt

Shadow of a Doubt is a 1943 American psychological thriller film noir directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten.

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Stage management

Stage management is a broad field that is generally defined as the practice of organization and coordination of an event or theatrical production.

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Summer stock theatre

In American theater, summer stock theatre is a theatre that presents stage productions only in the summer.

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Tallulah Bankhead

Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968) was an American actress of the stage and screen.

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Terence

Publius Terentius Afer (c. 195/185 – c. 159? BC), better known in English as Terence, was a Roman playwright during the Roman Republic, of Berber descent.

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The Bridge of San Luis Rey

The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim.

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The Eighth Day (novel)

The Eighth Day is a 1967 novel by Thornton Wilder.

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The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden

The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden is a one act play by American novelist and playwright Thornton Wilder written in 1931.

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The Ides of March (novel)

The Ides of March is an epistolary novel by Thornton Wilder that was published in 1948.

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The Long Christmas Dinner

The Long Christmas Dinner is a play in one act written by American novelist and playwright Thornton Wilder in 1931.

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The Long Christmas Dinner (opera)

The Long Christmas Dinner is an opera in one act by Paul Hindemith, with an English libretto by Thornton Wilder based on his play of the same name.

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The Matchmaker

The Matchmaker is a 1954 play by Thornton Wilder, a rewritten version of his 1938 play The Merchant of Yonkers.

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The Merchant of Yonkers

The Merchant of Yonkers is a 1938 play by Thornton Wilder.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Skin of Our Teeth

The Skin of Our Teeth is a play by Thornton Wilder which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

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The Thacher School

The Thacher School is a highly selective, co-educational, independent boarding school located on 427 acres (1.5 km²) of hillside overlooking the Ojai Valley in Ojai, California, United States.

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The Woman of Andros

The Woman of Andros is a 1930 novel by Thornton Wilder.

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Theophilus North

Theophilus North is a 1973 autobiographical novel, the last novel written by Thornton Wilder.

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Theopoetics

Theopoetics is an interdisciplinary field of study that combines elements of poetic analysis, process theology, narrative theology, and postmodern philosophy.

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Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre.

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Tony Blair

Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007.

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Tyrone Guthrie

Sir William Tyrone Guthrie (2 July 1900 – 15 May 1971) was an English theatrical director instrumental in the founding of the Stratford Festival of Canada, the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at his family's ancestral home, Annaghmakerrig, near Newbliss in County Monaghan, Ireland.

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United States Army Air Forces

The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF), informally known as the Air Force, was the aerial warfare service of the United States of America during and immediately after World War II (1939/41–1945), successor to the previous United States Army Air Corps and the direct predecessor of the United States Air Force of today, one of the five uniformed military services.

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United States Army Coast Artillery Corps

The U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps (CAC) was an administrative corps responsible for coastal, harbor, and anti-aircraft defense of the United States between 1901 and 1950.

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University of Chicago

The University of Chicago (UChicago, U of C, or Chicago) is a private, non-profit research university in Chicago, Illinois.

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University of Nebraska Press

The University of Nebraska Press, also known as UNP, was founded in 1941 and is an academic publisher of scholarly and general-interest books.

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Willa Cather

Willa Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 Cather's birth date is confirmed by a birth certificate and a January 22, 1874, letter of her father's referring to her. While working at McClure's Magazine, Cather claimed to be born in 1875. After 1920, she claimed 1876 as her birth year. That is the date carved into her gravestone at Jaffrey, New Hampshire. – April 24, 1947 Retrieved March 11, 2015.) was an American writer who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918).

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Writer's block

Writer's block is a condition, primarily associated with writing, in which an author loses the ability to produce new work, or experiences a creative slowdown.

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Yale University

Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Yantai

Yantai, formerly known as Zhifu or Chefoo, is a prefecture-level city on the Bohai Strait in northeastern Shandong Province, China.

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Zürich

Zürich or Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich.

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