Description
LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
About the Author
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) is the only writer to win Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and drama.
J. D. McClatchy (1945-2018), volume editor, was the author of many books of poetry and essays, including Plundered Hearts: New and Selected Poems (2014), and the editor of nine Library of America publications. He wrote the libretto for Ned Rorem's operatic version of Our Town, taught at Yale University, and served as editor of The Yale Review.
Reviews
"You have to hand it to a writer willing to attack the big questions head on, and to embed those questions in the story of small-town America, and then surround it all in the grandeur of the grandeur of America, and then abase some of its citizens for venality while others rise to existential heights." -Harold Augenbraum
Book Information
ISBN 9781598531466
Author Thornton Wilder
Format Hardback
Page Count 864
Imprint The Library of America
Publisher The Library of America
Weight(grams) 689g
Dimensions(mm) 208mm * 131mm * 35mm