Percival Wilde

1 March 1887 – 19 September 1953

> Percival Wilde (New York City, 1 March 1887 –19 September 1953) was an American author and playwright who wrote novels and numerous short stories and one-act plays. He also authored a textbook on the theater arts. Native to New York City, Wilde graduated from Columbia University in 1906, and worked for a time as a banker. He began writing plays in 1912, and joined The Lambs Club in 1947. Wilde's plays were especially popular in the Little Theatre Movement.

• The craftsmanship of the one-act play
• Confessional
• Dawn, with The noble lord, The traitor, A house of cards, Playing with fire, The finger of God
• Inquest
• The enchanted Christmas tree
• A Question of Morality
• A question of morality, and other plays
• According to Darwin
• Comrades in arms and other plays for little theatres
• Confessional And Other American Plays
• Contemporary one-act plays from nine countries
• Dawn