The Bridge of San Luis Rey is author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first released to acclaim in 1927. It tells the story of the events which contribute for their own being about the bridge, and numerous interrelated men and women who perish from the collapse of the undercover rope-fiber suspension bridge from Peru. [ about asking into the lifestyles of those sufferers, seeking some kind of cosmic reply to the inquiry of each had to 35, A friar who's witnessed the dreadful accident goes. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928.