Steven Millhauser

Steven Millhauser (born on August 3rd, 1943) is a novelist and American short story writer. It gained the Prix Pulitzer in 1997 with Martin Dressler or the Novel of an American dreamer .

Biography

It grew in the Connecticut in the east of New York and made its studies with the Université Columbia and the Université Brown where it began a doctorate.

It publishes the too short Life of Edwin Mulhouse in 1972, a novel on an early writer whose life finishes at 11 years, and gains the Prix Médicis foreign in 1975. The crtique one acclaims it and it publishes in 1977 its second novel, Portrait of romantic a .

It publishes in 1986 its first collection of news the Gallery of the plays , where childhood is a recurring thême. Its stories often treat thêmes of Fantasy semi-marvellous, semi-fantastic with the manner of Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Vladimir Nabokov, Edgar Poe or Italo Calvino. Its writing is at the border between dream and reality, childhood and the adult world, the world of imagination being opposed to the banality. It also publishes the Kingdom of Morphée in 1986.

Millhauser continues to write and publishes:

the Museum Barnum , 1990, of which one of the news, Eisenheim the illusionist , will be used as inspiration with Neil Burger for its film the Illusionist , left in 2006.
Petits kingdoms , 1993
The Knife-Thrower and Other Stories , not translated.

The unexpected success of Martin Dressler or the Novel of an American dreamer draws the attention to Steven Millhauser. It publishes Novella S, magic Nuit in 1999 and the King in the tree in 2003. A collection of news, called Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories will be published in 2008.

Its work was translated into French by Marc Chénetier, Francoise Cartano and Didier Coste.

Steven Milhhauser saw today with Saratoga Springs (New York) and teaches in Skidmore College.

A film adaptation of one of its news ( Sisterhood off Night ) is currently in production.

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