Celebrate the fiftieth anniversary and new edition of Wilder's National Book Award-winning novel with a reception, actors, commentators, and cake!
Participants
- Tappan Wilder, Thornton Wilder’s nephew and literary executor, is Honorary Chairman of the Thornton Wilder Society.
- Jeremy McCarter, author of Young Radicals: In the War for American Ideals and co-author with Lin-Manuel Miranda of Hamilton: The Revolution,has written about culture and politics for New York Magazine, Newsweek, and the New York Times.
- Liesl Olson, Director of the Chicago Studies program at the Newberry Library, is author of Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis, Modernism and the Ordinary, and many essays about twentieth-century writers and artists.
- Actors Mike Nussbaum, Linda Kimbrough, and B.J Jones, performing readings from The Eighth Day (with thanks to Northlight Theatre for casting this event).
Download a PDF flyer for this event, to post and distribute, and explore related Newberry materials with our Collection Quick Guide on Thornton Wilder.
Presented in Cooperation with The Thornton Wilder Family.
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