Book #58743

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

Gilbert A. Harrison

Binding: 1/4 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: $50.00

A first Printing of the First Edition in Fine condition housed in a like dust-jacket.

Gilbert A. Harrison's The Enthusiast: A Life of Thornton Wilder is an impressive and compelling biography of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Harrison skillfully weaves together Wilder's life story with excerpts from his writing, providing a comprehensive and nuanced portrait of one of America's most celebrated authors. The Enthusiast is an absorbing read, and its enthusiastic endorsement of Wilder's work will sure to whet readers' appetites for his novels.; 8vo; 403 pages.