Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece
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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award (Biography)
One of the Best Books of 2012: The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, The Millions, Kirkus Reviews, Boston Phoenix
A revelatory biography of the American master as told through the lens of his greatest novel.
Henry James (1843–1916) has had many biographers, but Michael Gorra has taken an original approach to this great American progenitor of the modern novel, combining elements of biography, cri...





















