Steven Millhauser, one of the most original novelists to emerge in the 1970s, was born on 3 August 1943 in New York and grew up in Connecticut where his father, Milton Millhauser, was an English professor at the University of Bridgeport. Millhauser recei...

On the surface, Steven Millhauser's first novel, Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954, and his most recent, Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer, appear radically different in subject and scope. Edwin Mullhouse--the outrageously exhaustive literary biography...

University Wire 09-28-1999 (Arizona Daily Wildcat) (U-WIRE) TUCSON, Ariz. -- "Martin Dressler, The Tale of an American Dreamer" could very well have been titled "The Story of the American Dream," as the reader takes the familiar rags-to-riches journey with our protagonist Martin. It's a...