Mark Helprin Summary

Biography EssayBorn in New York City on 28June 1947, Mark Helprin is the son of Eleanor Lynn and Morris Helprin. Morris Helprin, the son of emigres, was a movie critic for The New York Times who later... Read more

Critical Essay by Julia O'faolain Mark Helprin has points in common with [Isaac Bashevis Singer]. He too writes for the New Yorker. His characters are nearly all Jewish and his settings range ... Read more

Critical Essay by John Ryle Aleister Crowley once planned an epic poem in which he proposed to "celebrate everything in the world in detail" Mark Helprin's lengthy [Refiner... Read more

Critical Essay by Peter Ackroyd Refiner's Fire is a rather old-fashioned novel. It receives impressions of the outer world without cynicism or the self-confessed failure to understand, and Mar... Read more

Critical Essay by Rhoda Koenig "Ellis Island," the longest and best [story in Mark Helprin's collection by the same title,] drops its protagonist into a goldeneh medina whose dis... Read more

Critical Essay by Anne DuchÊne [There is evidence in "Ellis Island" that at the back of Mark Helprin's] mind he has a rich canvas—a stiffening, in the best sense&#x... Read more

Critical Essay by Anatole Broyard Mark Helprin's originality is hard to explain, just as it is hard sometimes to understand. But perhaps understand is too gross or aggressive a word for ... Read more

Critical Essay by Pearl K. Bell [Mark Helprin's] stories are an astonishment of imaginative virtuosity, written with measured and rather stately elegance about a prodigious variety of places, ... Read more

Critical Essay by Benjamin De Mott Arriving late at an elegant London dinner party, the narrator of "Tamar," a short story in Mark Helprin's "Ellis Island, and Other Stori... Read more