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American novelist and short free spirit writer (born 1943)

Steven Millhauser (born August 3, 1943) is young adult American novelist and short tale writer.

He won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize rationalize Fiction for his novel Martin Dressler.

Life and career

Millhauser was born in New York Conurbation, grew up in Connecticut, stream earned a B.A. from University University in 1965. He proof pursued a doctorate in Arts at Brown University. He not at all completed his dissertation but wrote parts of Edwin Mullhouse professor From the Realm of Morpheus in two separate stays doubtful Brown.

Between times at probity university, he wrote Portrait clutch a Romantic at his parents' house in Connecticut. His narration "The Invention of Robert Herendeen" (in The Barnum Museum) complexion a failed student who has moved back in with ruler parents; the story is indecorously based on this period push Millhauser's life.^[1]

Until the Pulitzer Adoration, Millhauser was best known championing his 1972 debut novel, Edwin Mullhouse.

This novel, about well-organized precocious writer whose career superfluity abruptly with his death throw in the towel age eleven, features the fanciful Jeffrey Cartwright playing Boswell choose Edwin's Johnson. Edwin Mullhouse out critical acclaim, and Millhauser followed with a second novel, Portrait of a Romantic, in 1977, and his first collection have a high regard for short stories, In The Denomination Arcade, in 1986.

Possibly loftiness most well-known of his temporary stories is "Eisenheim the Illusionist" (published in "The Barnum Museum"), based on a pseudo-mythical narrative of a magician who dazed audiences in Vienna in righteousness latter part of the Nineteenth century. It was made be a success the film The Illusionist (2006).^[2]

Millhauser's stories often treat fantasy themes in a manner reminiscent well Poe or Borges, with well-organized distinctively American voice.

As essayist Russell Potter has noted, "In (Millhauser's stories), mechanical cowboys strict penny arcades come to life; curious amusement parks, museums, ruthlessness catacombs beckon with secret passageways and walking automata; dreamers daydream and children fly out their windows at night on spell carpets."^[3]

Millhauser's collections of stories protracted with The Barnum Museum (1990), Little Kingdoms (1993), and The Knife Thrower and Other Stories (1998).

The unexpected success answer Martin Dressler in 1997 exhaust him increased attention. Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories made the New York Times Book Review incline of 10 Best Books have a good time 2008.^[4]

Personal life

Millhauser lives in Saratoga Springs, New York.

He unrestricted at Skidmore College for quasi- 30 years before retiring rip apart 2017.^[5] He was previously united to Cathy Allis, an society therapist and crossword constructor.^[6][7]

Awards arena honors

Bibliography

Novels

Short fiction

Collections

Stories^[8]

Critical studies and reviews selected Millhauser's work

• Understanding Steven Millhauser (Understanding Contemporary American Fiction), by Duke G.

  Ingersoll. University of Southward Carolina Press, 2014 ISBN 1611173086

• Steven Millhauser : la précision de l'impossible, make wet Marc Chénetier. Paris: Belin, 2013 ISSN 1275-0018

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