Portrait of a Romantic.
"Author of this author, generous critic, and loyal helper, who reads my books more often than anyone else": First Edition of Portrait of A Romantic; Inscribed by Steven Millhauser to His Mother
Portrait of a Romantic.
MILLHAUSER, Steven.
$750.00
Item Number: 146451
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.
First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s second book. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his Mother on the front free endpaper, “For Mom, author of this author, generous critic, and loyal helper, who reads my books more often than anyone else Steven.” Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Muriel Nasser. An exceptional association.
Millhauser is best known for his 1972 debut novel, Edwin Mullhouse. The novel is seemingly autobiographical, and it's about a precocious writer whose career ends abruptly with his death at age eleven. Millhauser followed with a second novel, Portrait of a Romantic (1977) and his first collection of short stories In The Penny Arcade (1986). In 1997 he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for Martin Dressler and, in 2012, the Story Prize for We Others.
