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1	1906	Thornton Wilder lebt 7. Mai-30. Oktober 1906 mit seiner Familie in Hong Kong.	Person: Wilder, Thornton
2	1929	Pember, John E. Thornton Wilder no slave to his works ; drops everything and takes a rest whenever he feels like it. In : Boston Hewrald ; 31 March 1929. "You know my education was rather broken up. My father took me to China and since returning I have lived at several places."	Person: Wilder, Thornton
3	1938	Parmenter, Ross. Novelist into playwright. [Thornton Wilder]. In : Saturday review of literature ; vol. 18, 11 June (1938). As we shook hands at parting, he asked me please to leave in his "perhapses" and "it may bes" because he felt their tentativeness was very much part of him. I felt, on the other hand, that his request was largely shyness, that the man who passed his adolescence as a stranger in China and his young manhood as a retired master at a boy's school had outgrown that tentativeness more than he knew.	Person: Wilder, Thornton
4	1957	Goldstone, Richard H. The art of fiction XVI : Thornton Wilder. In : Writers at work : the Paris review interviews. Ed. by Malcolm Cowley. (New York, N.Y. : Viking Press, 1958). Interviewer : Did the young Thornton Wilder resemble George Brush, and in what ways ? Wilder : Very much so. I came from a very strict Calvinistic father, was brought up partly among the missionaries of China, and went to that splendid college at Oberlin at a time when the classrooms and student life carried a good deal of the pious didacticism which would now be called narrow Protestantism.	Person: Wilder, Thornton
5	1959	Wilder, Thornton. Afternoon. From 'Talk of the town'. In : New Yorker ; vol. 35, 23 May (1959). We are approaching the house – the House the Bridge Built. The Bridge of San Louis Rey, what is. I live on a heap of dirt pushed down by an icecap from the North. Look at that odd red cliff there ! I call I our Dolomite, and it has come all the way from the North on an icecap. (Bounding out of car, up winding rustic stairway, and into dark wooden house, don't ask how) Much China-iana here. My father was a consul in China.	Person: Wilder, Thornton
6	1974	McCoy, Bob. Thornton Wilder in 'Our town'. In : San Juan star ; 2 Jan. (1974). "Some people have said that my boyhood in China had an influence on my theater style, of not using scenery, since this is also the style in Chinese theater. When a man goes on a journey, he puts a broomstick between his legs to represent a horse and you believe it. But I couldn't possibly have been influenced by Chinese theater because I never saw a play there. My influence came from the world theater, from the Greek drama, Shakespeare. These were works that call for the same sort of imagination."	Person: Wilder, Thornton

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1		Zentralbibliothek Zürich	Organisation / ZB