• 1906:  Moves to Hong Kong in May and to Berkeley, California in October
• 1906-10:  Emerson Public School in Berkeley
• 1910-11:  China Inland Mission School, Chefoo, China (one year)
• 1912-13:  Thacher School, Ojai, CA (one year). First play known to be produced: The Russian Princess
• 1915:  Graduates from Berkeley High School; active in school dramatics
• 1915-17:  Oberlin College; published regularly
• 1920:  B.A. Yale College (3-month service in 1918 with U.S. Army in 1918); many publications
• 1920-21:  American Academy in Rome (8-month residency)
• 1920s:  French teacher at Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, New Jersey (’21-’25 & ’27-’28)
• 1924:  First visit to the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire
• 1926:  M.A. in French literature, Princeton University
             The Trumpet Shall Sound produced off-Broadway (American Laboratory Theatre)
             The Cabala (first novel)
• 1927:  The Bridge of San Luis Rey (novel- Pulitzer Prize)
• 1928:  The Angel That Troubled The Waters (first published collection of drama—playlets)
• 1930s:  Part-time faculty, University of Chicago (comparative literature and composition); lectures across the country; first Hollywood screen-writing assignment  (1934); extensive foreign travel
• 1930:  The Woman of Andros (novel)
              Completion of home for his family and himself in Hamden, Connecticut
• 1931:  The Long Christmas Dinner and Other Plays (six one-act plays)
• 1932:  Lucrece opens on Broadway staring Katharine Cornell (translation of André Obey’s Le Viol de Lucrèce)
• 1935:  Heaven’s My Destination (novel)                          
• 1937:  A Doll’s House (adaptation/ trans.) opens on Broadway with Ruth Gordon
• 1938:  Our Town (Pulitzer Prize)and The Merchant of Yonkers open on Broadway
• 1942:  The Skin of Our Teeth opens on Broadway (Pulitzer Prize)
              Screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s The Shadow of a Doubt
• 1942-45:  Service with Army Air Force in North Africa and Italy (Lieut. Col. at discharge – Bronze Star and O.B.E.)
• 1948:  The Ides of March (novel); performing in his plays in summer stock in this period
              The Victors opens off-Broadway (translation of Sartre’s Morts sans sépulture)
• 1949:  Major role in Goethe Convocation in Aspen; lectures widely.
• 1951-52:  Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard
• 1952:  Gold Medal for Fiction, American Academy of Arts and Letters
• 1953:  Cover of Time Magazine (January 12)
• 1955:  The Matchmaker opens on Broadway staring Ruth Gordon
              The Alcestiad produced at Edinburgh Festival with Irene Worth (as A Life in the Sun)
• 1957:  German Peace Prize
• 1961:  Libretto for The Long Christmas Dinner (music by Paul Hindemith—premieres in Mannheim, West  Germany)
• 1962:  “Plays for Bleecker Street” (Someone from Assisi, Infancy, and Childhood) premiere at  NYC’s Circle in the Square 
              Libretto for The Alcestiad (music by Louise Talma—premieres  in Frankfurt, West Germany)
• 1963:  Presidential Medal of Freedom
• 1964:  Hello, Dolly!  starring Carol Channing opens on Broadway
• 1965:  National Book Committee’s Medal for Literature
• 1967:  The Eighth Day (National Book Award for Fiction)
• 1973:  Theophilus North (novel)
• 1975:  Dies in sleep in Hamden, CT on December 7. Buried at Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Hamden, Connecticut

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