Thornton Wilder (128 page)

“On Happy Endings, and the Pessimist,” 521

self-assessments in, 215–16, 485–86, 493–94, 505–6, 594, 605–7, 622

“Sketch for a Portrait of Tia [Anna] Bates,” 520

talking to himself in, 136, 212, 257–58, 290, 382, 499–500, 503, 520–21, 595, 598–99, 604, 605, 611, 613, 628, 632, 637–38, 646, 648

on wars, 132–33, 136, 492, 608

“Why One Writes and What One Writes,” 594

on women, 499–500, 672

Wilder, Thornton Niven, writings of:

The Acolyte,
131–32

adaptations of, 648–50

The Advertisement League,
77

“After a Visit to England,” 527

The Alcestiad/A Life in the Sun,
439, 473–76, 478, 529, 533, 541, 567–69, 572, 580, 587, 605, 627–30, 634–35, 639–40, 645, 647, 653, 674

“The American Loneliness,” 616

And the Sea Shall Give Up Its Dead,
178, 233

The Angel on the Ship,
149

The Angel That Troubled the Waters and Other Plays,
175, 277, 324–25, 388

Bernice,
638, 643

“The Boulevards and the Latin Quarter,” 197

The Boy Sebastian
(
The Cabala
), 197, 263

The Breaking of Exile,
142, 163, 187, 253

Bridge,
see
Bridge of San Luis Rey, The

Brother Fire: A Comedy for Saints,
101, 110

Cabala,
see
Cabala, The

“Caone and Acuthna,” 126

“Chefoo, China,” xiii, 20, 42–43, 49

Childhood,
652

“Chinese Story,” 42–43

The Death of the Centaur: A Footnote to Ibsen,
162–63, 168–69, 178, 243

“The Detective Story Mystery,” 689–90, 691–93

Dialogue in the Elizabethan Club,
151

Doremus,
62

The Dreamers,
186–87

The Drunken Sisters,
476, 639, 678

The Eighth Day,
139, 185, 371, 416, 520, 578, 619, 643, 660–61, 662–63, 664, 665, 666, 667–73, 680, 685, 687, 696, 698, 702

The Emporium,
596–99, 603, 604, 605, 612, 634–35

“Empress of Newfoundland,” 595

as escape, 91

experimentation in, xv, 91, 110–11, 127, 161–62, 169, 175, 200, 207, 220–21, 350, 476, 486, 493, 582, 595, 634–36

A Fable for Those Who Plague,
120

“Fables and Tirades,” 238

The Fifty Dollar Play,
421

Flamingo Red: A Comedy in Cages,
101

“Four Minute Plays for Four Persons,” 634, 638

Genivar Wyatt,
142

Geraldine de Vere/de Gray,
238, 241, 249, 252–54

The Greek Woman,
110

The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden,
349, 379, 408, 424, 447, 453, 552, 555, 643

Heaven's My Destination,
291, 313, 322, 345, 350–51, 356, 358, 359, 361, 366, 378, 379, 380–81, 382, 388, 390–92, 399, 400, 408, 422, 519, 602, 672

The Hell of the Vizier Kabäar,
402, 420–21, 559, 568, 569

Homage to P. G. Wodehouse,
402, 421, 426

“A House in the Country,” 206

The Ides of March,
384, 421, 437–38, 486, 571, 572, 579–82, 584, 585–90, 602, 645, 648, 649, 650, 702

Incubations on War,
187

Infancy,
652

In Praise of Guynemer,
150, 167

In Shakespeare and the Bible,
638

“The Language of Emotion in Shakespeare,” 101

The Last Word About Burglars,
100, 103

letters, 59–61, 67–68, 84–85, 136, 552, 595;
see also
specific correspondents

The Long Christmas Dinner and Other Plays in One Act,
341, 348, 349–50, 363, 395, 408, 422, 424, 649

Love and How to Cure It,
419

Lucrece
(transl.), 360, 461, 468

Manuelito Becomes an Air Cadet,
530

“The Marriage of Zabett,” 126–27

Masque of the Bright Haired,
120

“Measure for Measure” (sonnet), 150, 243

“The Melting Pot,” 646

Memoirs of Charles Mallison: The Year in Rome/Notes of a Roman Student
(
The Cabala
), 197, 219–20, 221, 225, 226, 238, 242–45, 249, 263;
see also Cabala, The

The Merchant of Yonkers/Matchmaker/Hello, Dolly,
342, 371, 404, 420, 439, 444, 451, 455–56, 457–58, 460, 461–64, 466, 467–68, 469–73, 474, 480, 500, 549, 621, 624–26, 642, 646, 656, 660, 663, 674

The Message and Jehanne,
149–50

Mr. Bozzy,
111

Nascuntur Poetae,
152–53

Norton lectures, 609–13, 615–16, 617, 622, 634, 637, 643

That Other Fanny Otcutt,
149–50

Our Town,
see
Our Town

The Pilgrims,
253

“Plays for Bleecker Street,” 652, 656, 680

poetry, 34, 132, 150, 243

The Primrose Path,
97

Proserpina and the Devil: A Comedy for Marionettes,
120, 178

Pulitzer Prizes for, 313, 322, 352, 459, 460, 465, 549

Pullman Car Hiawatha,
349, 424, 444, 447, 475, 641, 652

reading as foundation of, 59, 107, 109, 127, 157, 200, 206, 207–8, 209, 224, 237–38, 263, 286, 305–6, 327, 390–91, 404, 426, 549, 581, 663

recurrent themes in, 54, 62, 163, 198, 306–7, 312, 351, 415, 423, 440, 441, 555–56, 578, 601–2, 610, 627, 628–29, 635, 640, 641, 663, 669–72, 687, 695

recycling of, 142, 152, 163, 288, 476, 643

rejections of, 186–87

The Rivers Under the Earth,
643

The Rocket: An American Comedy in Four Acts,
103–4, 109–10, 114, 186

“Roman Portraits,” 238

royalties donated to charities, 562

The Russian Princess,
70

“Sealing-Wax,” 101

“Sentences,” 207–8

The Seven Ages of Man,
656, 662

The Seven Deadly Sins,
656, 662

“The Shelley Centenary,” 208

Skin,
see
Skin of Our Teeth, The

Solus inter Deos Potens,
149

Someone from Assisi,
652

“Some Thoughts on Playwriting,” 200, 598

“Spiritus Valet,” 157–58

“SS
Independenza,
” 178, 677

St. Francis Lake: A Comedy,
101

“Student-Life at Yale Since the War,” 173

A Successful Failure,
80

Theophilus North,
185, 286, 291, 335, 500, 619, 658–59, 672, 676–78, 680, 683–88, 694, 695–96, 698

“Theophilus North, Zen Detective,” 692–93

Three-Minute Plays for Three Persons,
91, 150, 207, 324, 638

“Toward an American Language,” 616

translations, 293, 295, 296, 359–60, 572, 590

The Trasteverine
(
The Cabala
), 207, 208, 263

The Trumpet Shall Sound,
175, 177, 187, 221, 253–54, 272, 275, 277, 285–88, 348, 595

“The Turn of the Year,” 240–41

The Unerring Instinct,
591

Vecy-Segal,
161

The Victors
(transl. Sartre's
Morts sans sépulture
), 590

Villa Rhabani,
184, 187, 210

The Walled City,
151–52

The Woman of Andros,
259, 266, 326, 327–28, 330, 331, 332, 333, 334–37, 341, 342–45, 350, 351, 379, 388, 390, 391, 435, 441, 519, 591, 602, 648, 702

The Wreck on the 5:25,
643

Your Community and the War Effort,
530

Wiley, Lee, 179

Williams, Dora Norton, 88, 102

Williams, Ira, 247

Williams, Rose, 619–20

Williams, Tennessee, 619–20, 643

Williamson, Talcott, 88

Wilson, Edmund, 198–99, 312, 319–20, 342, 343–44, 350, 452, 482, 490–91, 546, 663

Wilson, Violette Still, 80

Wilson, Woodrow, 66, 128

Windsor, Duke and Duchess of, 413

Wisconsin State Journal,
2, 10, 14, 15–16, 51, 57, 415

Wodehouse, P. G., 402, 426

Wolfe, Thomas, 389

Wood, Sam, 483

Woolf, Virginia, 413

Woollcott, Alexander, 353, 357, 498, 504, 505, 550–53

and
As You Were,
551–52

death of, 552–53

“Five Thousand Letters to Alexander Woollcott,” 553

and friendship, 395, 413, 414, 417, 418, 444, 447, 479, 552, 553

and Harris, 446, 462

in
Man Who Came to Dinner,
481

papers archived at Harvard, 553

and Stein, 397, 406, 430

TNW's letters to, 385, 387, 408, 410, 416, 421, 425, 431, 450, 474, 487, 494, 519, 526, 537, 539, 550–51, 552–53, 557

and TNW's works:
Merchant
, 469, 471, 472;
Our Town
, 427, 442, 447, 451, 465, 552;
Skin,
507, 529, 533, 544, 551, 552

World War I, 128–34, 565

and ANW, 83–84, 115–16, 117–18, 122–23, 127–28, 136–37, 144, 150, 154, 157, 159, 164, 166–67, 169, 172, 235, 376

APW's pushing of TNW toward, 116, 118, 128, 165

armistice, 169–70

circumcisions during, 166

conscription bill, 132, 133, 134, 160

and farmwork, 134, 140

mustering-out process, 170, 172

onset of, 84

TNW drafted into, 164–66, 167–68, 169

TNW's Washington job during, 160–61, 164

United States' entry into, 128–29

World War II, 427, 467

end of, 564, 568

foreboding of, 404–5, 419–20

grim news of, 488–89, 492, 505

impact of, 497, 525, 526–27

North African theater of, 556–57

onset of, 478, 481

and Pearl Harbor, 523, 527–28

and post-traumatic stress disorder, 565–66

and
Skin,
492–93, 504–5, 528, 529, 542, 548, 574

TNW's military service in, 154, 528, 529–30, 537, 538–41, 545, 550–51, 553–54, 556–65, 569

United States' entry into, 527–28

Worth, Irene, 629, 630, 650, 653, 684

WPA Writers' Project, 411, 429, 482

Wright, Richard, 429

Wright, Teresa, 537

Wright, Thew, 628, 630, 643, 658

Wycherley, William, 417, 469

Wylie, Elinor, 233, 236, 237, 238, 242, 678

 

Yaddo colony, 373, 374

Yale Alumni Weekly,
208

Yale
Courant,
157

Yale Divinity School, 179, 223, 239, 250

Yale-in-China Association, 82, 98, 116, 121, 138, 150, 188

Yale Literary Magazine
“the
Lit
,” 148, 149, 150, 152, 159, 160, 167, 175, 178, 179, 243, 286

Yale
Record,
149

Yale Review,
176, 527

Yale School of Fine Arts, 239

Yale Series of Younger Poets, 219

Yale University:

ANW as student in, 84, 89, 92, 98, 144, 147, 174, 178, 376