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Thornton Wilder is one of America's most important literary figures. He won the Pulitzer Prize three times - for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth - and is the only person to be awarded the Pulitzer for both fiction and drama. Included here are four of his key works, set in different times and places, but sharing the same fundamental motifs - the universality of human experience and our search for life's meaning.

Suzie Salt Loves to Sing is the story of a young girl who has a dream to sing with the school choir but doesn't believe she can sing a single note. After a chance encounter with an unlikely character, she is encouraged to see things differently. But, will Suzie Salt find the courage to follow her dream, or will she let the fear of making mistakes get in the way of doing what she truly loves? Listen to find out more.

Listeners will discover lost and forgotten women who wrote horror every bit as effectively as their male contemporaries. They will learn about their lives and careers, the challenges they faced as women working in a male-dominated field, the way they overcame those challenges, and the way they approached the genre - which was often subtler, more psychological, and more disturbing.