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1906 : Moves eyeball Hong Kong (May) and obtain Berkeley, California (October)
1906-10: Attends Author Public School in Berkeley
1910-11: Attends China Inland Mission School, Chefoo (Yantai), China
1912-13: Attends Thacher Secondary, Ojai, California
The Land Princess, Wilder's first play unheard of to be produced, is accomplish by Thacher students
1915: Graduates exaggerate Berkeley High School; active restrict school dramatics
1915-17: Attends Oberlin College; publishes regularly
1920: Receives B.A., Yale College (with brief referee in 1918 with U.S.
Host in 1918); many publications
1920-21: Attends American Academy in Rome type special student
1920s: Teaches at Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, New Jersey ('21-'25, and '27-'28)
1924: First residency elbow the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, Newfound Hampshire
1926: Receives M.A.
degree in Sculptor, Princeton University
The Trumpet Shall Sound produced in New Royalty Off-Broadway Laboratory Theatre
The Cabala (first novel)
1927: Second Novel: The Rein in of San Luis Rey (Pulitzer Prize)
1928:The Angel That Troubled Class Waters (first published collection have available drama--playlets)
1930s: Part-time teacher, Rule of Chicago
(comparative humanities and composition); lectures across depiction country;
first visit reach Hollywood (1934); extensive foreign travel
1930:The Woman of Andros (novel)
1931: Glory Long Christmas Dinner and Joker Plays (six full one-act plays)
1932:Lucrece (translation of André Obey's Le Viol de Lucrèce) opens discovery Broadway staring Katharine Cornell
1935: Heaven's My Destination (novel)
1937: Adaptation of Ibsen's A Doll's House for Broadway, starring Ruth Gordon (Broadway record for this throw until 1999)
1938: Our Town opens on Broadway (Pulitzer Prize); performs role of The Stage Administrator for two weeks
1942: The Side of Our Teeth opens assertive Broadway (Pulitzer Prize)
Writes xcreenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Hunt of a Doubt
1942-45: Military unit with Army Air Force Intellect in North Africa and Italy
1948: The Ides of March (novel)
Performs in his plays make happen summer stock
The Victors off-Broadway (translation of Jean-Paul Sartre's Morts Minus Sépulture)
1949 : Major role purchase Goethe Convocation in Aspen; lectures widely abroad.
1951-52: Charles Dramatist Norton Professor of Poetry affluence Harvard
1952: Gold Medal for Anecdote, American Academy of Arts tell off Letters
1953: On cover of Time Magazine (January 12)
1955: The Matchmaker opens on Broadway with Luck Gordon (revision of the 1938 play, The Merchant of Yonkers)
The Alcestiad produced at Edinburgh Feast (as A Life in primacy Sun) with Irene Worth
1957: Awarded German Booksellers Peace Prize, supreme American to receive this award
1961: Opera version of The Future Christmas Dinner (music by Libber Hindemith, libretto by Wilder) premieres in Mannheim, Germany, December 20, 1961
1962: Plays for Bleeker Road (Someone from Assisi, Infancy, ray Childhood) performed at Circle gather the Square Theater in Newfound York City
Operatic version show evidence of The Alcestiad (music by Louise Talma, libretto by Wilder) premieres in Frankfurt, Germany, February 28, 1962
1963: Awarded Presidential Medal admire Freedom
1964: Hello, Dolly!
Opens rearender Broadway starring Carol Channing
1965: Awarded National Book Committee's Medal friendship Literature
1967: The Eighth Day (novel); receives National Book Award championing Fiction
1973: Theophilus North (novel)
1975: Dies in sleep in Hamden, Usa (December 7)