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3 unusual facts about The Bridge of San Luis Rey


Dezső Kosztolányi

Kosztolányi also produced literary translations in Hungarian, such as (from English, at least) Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", "The Winter's Tale", Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland", Thornton Wilder's "The Bridge of San Luis Rey", Lord Alfred Douglas' memoirs on Oscar Wilde and Rudyard Kipling's "If—".

Margaret Kennedy

Of her postwar novels, The Feast (1950) introduces the disaster first and the characters who may or may not have perished in it afterwards, as in Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey.

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

The book is referred to in the Monk television episode, "Mr. Monk and the Earthquake", when Darryl Wright claims to Adrian Monk, Sharona Fleming and Gail Fleming to have written a Pulitzer Prize nominated article about five people who died in a bridge collapse.


Barton Hepburn

This was not a stageboard for huge success for Hepburn and he returned to theatre, with a number of appearances at Broadway, until the 1940s when he appeared in a number of films, such as Hi Diddle Diddle (1943), The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944), and A Song for Miss Julie (1945).

Micaela Villegas

She and the Viceroy are also prominent characters in Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey.


see also

Alex Hitz

Hitz then went from Broadway production to television movie production, developing screenplays for Everybody Was So Young by Amanda Vaill, The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder, and Henry James’ The Aspern Papers.