Thornton Wilder
Wilder won three Pulitzer Prizes for his writing. His second novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey won in 1928. His most famous play, Our Town won in 1938. Another play, The Skin of Our Teeth won in 1943. He was Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University in 1950 and 1951. He was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963. In 1965 he was the first person to receive the National Medal for Literature.