He published a collection of one-act plays, The Long Christmas Dinner, while working as a teacher at the University of Chicago.  
He published a collection of one-act plays, The Long Christmas Dinner, while working as a teacher at the University of Chicago.  He wanted to write a cycle of 14 plays, though he only finished a group of three known as Plays for Bleecker Street.  He won a National Book Award for his novel The Eighth Day, while his other fictional works include a novel about Julius Caesar and a novel about a man who takes a number of jobs after his car breaks down in Newport, Rhode Island in the summer of 1926.  In addition to The Ides of March and Theophilus North, he won his third Pulitzer for a 1942 play about a man who invents the wheel, George Antrobus. FTP, name this author of The Skin of Our Teeth and The Bridge of San Luis Rey.
He published a collection of one-act plays, The Long Christmas Dinner, while working as a teacher at the University of Chicago.  
Thornton Wilder