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Steven Millhauser

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Steven Millhauser Biography (1)

Steven (Lewis) Millhauser

1,034 words, approx. 4 pages

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 profe... Read more

Essays & Analysis (12)

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

904 words, approx. 4 pages

[Below, Kakutani reviews several of Millhauser's short story collections, praising the writing style but finding several of the stories lacking in character or plot development.] To read Steven... Read more

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

977 words, approx. 4 pages

[Cantor is an author and a MacArthur Prize Fellow. Below, he reviews Millhauser's collection The Barnum Museum.] "Imagination dead, imagine," Samuel Beckett moaned, dismayed to di... Read more

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

884 words, approx. 3 pages

[In the following review, Balz favorably assesses The Barnum Museum.] Among the pleasures of literature, and there are many, is one that is absent from much of the self-conscious fiction of recent yea... Read more

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

995 words, approx. 4 pages

[Below, Saroyan gives a mixed review of the stories in The Barnum Museum.] In more than a few of the 10 stories that comprise The Barnum Museum it's as if a prodigious, bizarre and photographic... Read more

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

3,204 words, approx. 11 pages

[Below, Rieckmann uses Edwin Mullhouse and Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus to examine the literary role of the mock biography.] When Steven Millhauser's first novel, Edwin Mullhouse: The Li... Read more

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

335 words, approx. 2 pages

[Below, the critic provides a brief plot summary and favorable review of Martin Dressler.] Literature's romance with the building-as-metaphor earns new energy through Millhauser's latest... Read more

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

1,074 words, approx. 4 pages

[In the following review, the critic provides a plot summary and positive review of Martin Dressler.] Steven Millhauser is a wonderfully gifted and original writer who had the rather considerable misf... Read more

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

1,971 words, approx. 7 pages

[In the following review, Postlethwaite compares the development of the theme of the world of the imagination in Edwin Mullhouse and Martin Dressler.] On the surface, Steven Millhauser's first ... Read more

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

1,931 words, approx. 7 pages

[In the following interview, Millhauser provides some insight on his perspectives regarding the creative process.] Saratoga Springs, in upstate New York, is perhaps best known as the home of the oldes... Read more

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

1,418 words, approx. 5 pages

[In the following review, Burroway favorably assesses Martin Dressler.] "Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate to our dreams." So says the narrator o... Read more

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

567 words, approx. 2 pages

[In the following review, Sheppard discusses Martin Dressler, suggesting that the architectural structures in the story are metaphors for American culture.] Why do novelists like to stereotype America... Read more

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

1,144 words, approx. 4 pages

[In the following essay, Smith provides some biographical information about the author and a summary of his works.] The writer Steven Millhauser was teaching his fiction workshop class at Skidmore Col... Read more

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