Biographie

One of Alfred Hitchcocks favorite screenwriters; Hitchcock even went so far as to add to the credits of L'ombre d'un doute (1943) a special dedication to Wilder, who wrote the film screenplay.

Introduced writer-director Garson Kanin to his future wife, actress-writer Ruth Gordon in 1940.

Pictured on a 32¢ US commemorative postage stamp in the Literary Arts series, issued 17 April 1997.

He is most famous for his play "Our Town", which was first produced on Broadway in 1938. It has been made into a theatrical motion picture only once (so far), in 1940, with four members of the original cast and with the play's ending completely altered, and, many would say, ruined. It has been revived on Broadway several times, the latest revival (with Paul Newman) being produced in the fall of 2002 and broadcast on TV in 2003. Two of the play's revivals have been broadcast, but the play has been performed on television no fewer than five times since 1950. It has also been produced, and continues to be produced, by virtually every high school or college in the United States at one time or another.

Attended the MacDowell Colony in Petersborough, NH, on which he based Grover's Corner in "Our Town".

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.

Marriage is the price men pay for sex; sex is the price women pay for marriage.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.