The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Name: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Author: Thornton Wilder

by Thornton Wilder

Novel about five strangers united by a bridge's collapse in colonial Peru during discovery

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Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder was a unique American writer who moved fluently between the novel, the play, and the philosophical meditation. He won the Pulitzer Prize three times—twice for drama and once for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey.

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