Description
A Man for All Times:
Collecting Thornton Wilder
Wilder was a true artist, restricted by neither time nor locale. His writing addressed themes important to mankind in all times and places. Highly honored during his lifetime, he won three Pulitzer Prizes, and was the only writer ever to win Pulitzers for both a novel and a play.
Thornton Wilder: An Annotated Checklist
For a writer with a long career, Wilder had a relatively small output. However, his work tends to be difficult bibliographically.
Recent Trends in the Book World
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Despite the upheaval in the book world during the last seven or eight years, much of the trade seems very familiar.
Of Mice and Men: Of Firsts and Seconds
There is so much confusion about John Steinbeck’s masterpiece Of Mice and Men that it has become common for even top-level dealers to catalogue the book club edition as a “first edition, second issue.” We attempt to sort out the various issues of the first.
Books into Film
Our Town, a play by Thornton Wilder, a film by Sam Wood
Ten Years Ago
February 1993 Checklist Update: Gabriel Garcia Marquez