Steven Millhauser Summary

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

Critical Essay by The New Republic Edwin Mullhouse was a Connecticut boy who wrote the novel Cartoons and who died under strange circumstances at age 11; Jeffrey Cartwright, his neighbor, classmate a... Read more

Critical Essay by John Calvin Batchelor In Millhauser's Portrait Of A Romantic, 29-year-old Arthur Grumm sits down to reminisce about his youth. The story thus has a limitation placed upon it ... Read more

Critical Essay by William Hjortsberg ["Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer (1943–1954). By Jeffrey Cartwright"], Steven Millhauser's deft first novel... Read more

Critical Essay by Joseph Kanon Like great actors in mediocre plays, there are some writers whose talent seems larger than the vehicles they have chosen to contain it. A case in point is [Edwin Mullho... Read more

Critical Essay by Pearl K. Bell Little could James Joyce have foreseen the avalanche of cliché he was setting in motion when he began A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man with [a] now legen... Read more

Critical Essay by Sheldon Frank There is something very disconcerting and peculiar about Steven Millhauser's fiction. It is written with the discipline of a man far beyond his thirty-four year... Read more

In the following essay, Eder asserts that the stories of In the Penny Arcade “all suffer to varying degrees from overarrangement and an evident striving for effect.” [In In The Penny ... Read more

In the following essay, Saltzman analyzes the role of lists in Millhauser's fiction. The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed. —Herman Melvi... Read more

In the following review, Evenson offers a mixed assessment of Enchanted Night. Millhauser's latest offering [Enchanted Night] is a lean novella consisting of seventy-four short, titled prose... Read more

In the following review, Malin offers a positive assessment of The Barnum Museum. Although Millhauser has written four remarkable books, he has not received sustained, profound criticism. His lates... Read more

In the following essay, Howe offers a close reading of Millhauser's Catalogue of the Exhibition. Since Steven Millhauser's novella is experimental in form—I'm not aware ... Read more

In the following review of Little Kingdoms, Dirda addresses Millhauser's reputation as a writer of meticulous tales. “Reviews,” finally concludes Steven Millhauser, “did... Read more

In the following excerpt, Green finds parallels between Steve Stern's A Plague of Dreamers and Millhauser's Little Kingdoms. Throughout the recent period in American fiction dominated... Read more