Theophilus North, novel by Thornton Wilder, published in 1973. The last work published during Wilder’s lifetime, it has striking parallels to his own life experiences and may be considered a fictionalized memoir of his artistic and philosophical life.
A first-person reminiscence of life among the rich at Newport, Rhode Island, during the summer of 1926, the novel is narrated by the elderly North from a distance of 50 years.