Book #56613

The Enthusiast: a Life of Thornton Wilder - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Gilbert A. Harrison

Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: New Haven And New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1983.
ISBN: 0899191975

Price: $60.00

A Handsome first Edition/First Printing in Fine condition housed in an equally unblemished dust-jacket.

Gilbert A. Harrison's The Enthusiast: A Life of Thornton Wilder is a biography of one of the most celebrated American writers of the twentieth century. Thornton Wilder was born in 1887 in the small town of Madison, Vermont. He attended the University of Vermont and then moved to New York City to pursue a career in writing. Wilder's writing career was successful, and he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his play, Our Town. Wilder died in 1975, but his work continues to be celebrated. The Enthusiast is a biography of Wilder's life, from his childhood in Vermont to his successes as a writer. Harrison provides a detailed account of Wilder's life and works, and he provides a wealth of information about Wilder's contemporaries and contemporaries' responses to Wilder's work. The Enthusiast is an excellent biography of one of America's most celebrated writers.; 8vo; 403 pages; Price? ? ?