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...

Steven Millhauser is the best fiction writer in creating miniature representations of reality with the goal of presenting life in a form that is easy to understand. Only that small portion of life that is controllable is shown and the uncertain and the unknown...

Millhauser writes about dreamers in his fiction, and his latest novel is about a businessman who is also a dreamer. The man fantasizes about building lavish and peculiar hotels. Millhauser discusses his writing and his personality. SARATOGA SPRINGS, in upstate New York, is...

Today is Saturday, April 7, the 97th day of 2007. There are 268 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On April 7, 1862, Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.On this date:In 1927,...

Todd Field’s Little Children, from a screenplay by Mr. Field and Tom Perrotta, based on the novel by Mr. Perrotta, is centered on a contemporary suburban Madame Bovary, Sarah Pierce, played with full-bodied grace and gusto by Kate Winslet. Sarah is a housewife who seems...

In the following essay, Kinzie explores the defining characteristics of Millhauser's short fiction and finds parallels between his work and that of Jorge Luis Borges and Franz Kafka.

In the following essay, Saltzman analyzes the role of lists in Millhauser's fiction.

In the following essay, Fowler praises Millhauser as a miniaturist, claiming that this role sets the author apart from other contemporary writers and allows him to create “exquisite, apolitical, socially indifferent” tales.