Thornton Wilder Autographs
Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day.
Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin, the son of Amos Parker Wilder, a newspaper editor and later a U.S. diplomat, and Isabella Thornton Niven.
Wilder had four siblings as well as a twin who was stillborn. All of the surviving Wilder children spent part of their childhood in China when their father was stationed in Hong Kong and Shanghai as U.S. Consul General. Thornton's older brother, Amos Niven Wilder, became Hollis Professor of Divinity at the Harvard Divinity School. He was a noted poet and was instrumental in developing the field of theopoetics. Their sister Isabel Wilder was an accomplished writer. They had two more sisters, Charlotte Wilder, a poet, and Janet Wilder Dakin, a zoologist.
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Traded items with a signature of Thornton Wilder
The most expensive item with a signature of Thornton Wilder (Narration SIGNED by GERTRUDE STEIN & THORNTON WILDER Limited First Edition 1935) was sold in September 2025 for $2,500.00 while the cheapest item (THORNTON WILDER 2x3.5 Hand Signed Clip w/ COA) found a new owner for $4.99 in August 2016. The month with the most items sold (2) was June 2013 with an average selling price of $110.78 for an autographed item of Thornton Wilder. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in December 2016 with $250.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $10.60 was September 2013. In average, an autographed item from Thornton Wilder is worth $52.00.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Thornton Wilder were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | Thornton Wilder - Playwright & Novelist - Autographed The Eighth Day Book | $72.00 |  |
| Thornton Wilder - Playwright & Novelist - Autographed The Eighth Day Book | $72.00 | |
| Thornton Wilder - Playwright & Novelist - Autographed The Eighth Day Book | $72.00 | |
| Thornton Wilder - The Woman of Andros - Signed Twice & Numbered Edition, 1946 | $79.95 | |
| Thornton Wilder - The Woman of Andros - Signed Twice & Numbered Edition, 1946 | $79.95 | |
| Thornton Wilder - The Woman of Andros - Signed Twice & Numbered Edition, 1946 | $79.95 | |
| Thornton Wilder Signature Cut (1950) Pulitzer Prize Winning Author | $205.00 | |
| Thornton Wilder Signature Cut (1950) Pulitzer Prize Winning Author | $205.00 | |
| Thornton Wilder Signature Cut (1950) Pulitzer Prize Winning Author | $205.00 | |
| Thornton Wilder Signed Note - Pulitzer Prize Winning Playwright & Novelist | $31.00 | |
| Thornton Wilder Signed Note - Pulitzer Prize Winning Playwright & Novelist | $31.00 | |
| Thornton Wilder Signed Note - Pulitzer Prize Winning Playwright & Novelist | $31.00 | |
| Vintage 1954 Hand Written Signed Thornton Wilder Letter fr/ TSS Olympia | $67.00 | |
| Vintage 1954 Hand Written Signed Thornton Wilder Letter fr/ TSS Olympia | $67.00 | |
| Vintage 1954 Hand Written Signed Thornton Wilder Letter fr/ TSS Olympia | $67.00 | |
