Thornton Wilder '20 (1897-1975). Wilder published his first full-length play, The Trumpet Shall Sound, in the Yale Literary Magazine in 1920, and he went on to a remarkable career as a writer. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1928 for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey, and the Pulitzer for drama in 1938 for Our Town and in 1943 for The Skin of Our Teeth. When he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963, Wilder was cited as an “artist of rare gaiety and penetration.” This 32-cent stamp is from 1997.