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Steven Millhauser

American novelist and short story writer (born 1943)

Steven Millhauser (born August 3, 1943) is an American novelist and short story writer. He won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Martin Dressler.

Life and career

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Millhauser was born in New York City, grew up in Connecticut, and earned a B.A. from Columbia University in 1965. He then pursued a doctorate in English at Brown University. He never completed his dissertation but wrote parts of Edwin Mullhouse and From the Realm of Morpheus in two separate stays at Brown. Between times at the university, he wrote Portrait of a Romantic at his parents' house in Connecticut. His story "The Invention of Robert Herendeen" (in The Barnum Museum) features a failed student who has moved back in with his parents; the story is loosely based on this period of Millhauser's life.^[1]

Until the Pulitzer Prize, Millhauser was best known for his 1972 debut novel, Edwin Mullhouse. This novel, about a precocious writer whose career ends abruptly with his death at age eleven, features the fictional Jeffrey Cartwright playing Boswell to Edwin's Johnson. Edwin Mullhouse brought critical acclaim, and Millhauser followed with a second novel, Portrait of a Romantic, in 1977, and

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Books by Steven Millhauser

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
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3.55 avg rating — 10,402 ratings — published 1996 — 51 editions

Dangerous Laughter
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3.82 avg rating — 2,335 ratings — published 2008 — 23 editions

The Best American Short Stories 2011
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3.86 avg rating — 2,015 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions

The Best American Short Stories 2008
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3.85 avg rating — 1,665 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions

The Knife Thrower and Other Stories
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4.01 avg rating — 1,259 ratings — published 1998 — 24 editions

We Others: New and Selected Stories
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3.93 avg rating — 976 ratings — published 2011 — 17 editions

Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright
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4.05 avg rating — 923 ratings — published 1972 — 37 editions

The Barnum Museum
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3.83 avg rating — 949 ratings — published 1990 — 31 editions

Voices in the Night
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3.60 avg rating — 1,009 ratings — published 2015 — 18 editions

Enchanted Night
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3.63 avg rating — 997 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions

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