Winner · Pulitzer Prizes 1938
Our Town
play written by Thornton Wilder
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.
Synopsis from Open Library.
- Language
- English
- Genre
- spoken drama
Pulitzer Prizes 1938
See all →
More by Thornton Wilder
Every prize →
Other Pulitzer Prizes winners
All years →Demon Copperhead
WinnerEnglish
WinnerTrust
WinnerFat Ham
WinnerHow I escaped a Chinese internment camp
WinnerThe Netanyahus
Winnerfrank: sonnets
WinnerFranchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
WinnerThe Dead Are Arising
WinnerThe Hot Wing King
WinnerThe Night Watchman
WinnerSontag
WinnerThe End of the Myth
WinnerThe Nickel Boys
WinnerThe Tradition
WinnerThe Undying
WinnerAmity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
WinnerFrederick Douglass
WinnerThe New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
WinnerThe Overstory
Winner