Steven Millhauser

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Steven Millhauser (born August 3, 1943 in New York ) is an American writer .

Life

Steven Millhauser is the son of an English language professor who taught at the City College of New York and later at the University of Bridgeport . Millhauser grew up in New York and Connecticut . He studied at Columbia University , where he received a bachelor's degree in 1965 . From 1968 to 1971 he studied at Brown University in Rhode Island with the aim of a doctorate on the literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance . In 1971 he broke off this course and turned to writing. He married in 1984 and taught from 1986 to 1987 at a College in Williamstown ( Massachusetts ). From 1988 to 2003 he was a part-time lecturer at Skidmore College , Saratoga Springs , New York ; in addition to his teaching activities, he continued to work on his literary works.

Steven Millhauser is the author of novels and short stories that are classified as fantastic literature . For his first work he received the French “ Prix ​​Médicis Étranger ” in 1975 , the World Fantasy Award for The Illusionist in 1990 and the Pulitzer Prize for his novel “Martin Dressler” in 1997 . Millhauser has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1998 .

His short story Eisenheim the Illusionist (published in Barnum Museum ) was made into a film in 2006 under the title The Illusionist . The short story The Sisterhood of Night from the book The Knife Thrower and Other Stories was filmed in 2014 under the same title .

Works

  • Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954, by Jeffrey Cartwright , New York 1972
  • Portrait of a Romantic , New York 1977
  • From the Realm of Morpheus , New York 1986
  • In the Penny Arcade , New York 1986
  • The Illusionist , New York 1989
  • The Barnum Museum , New York 1990
  • Little Kingdoms , New York 1993
  • Martin Dressler. The Tale of an American Dreamer , New York 1996
  • The Knife Thrower and Other Stories , New York 1998
  • Enchanted Night , New York 1999
  • The King in the Tree , New York 2003
  • Dangerous Laughter , New York 2008
  • We Others: New and Selected Stories , New York 2011
  • Voices in the Night , New York 2015

German translations

  • Martin Dressler. An American dreamer , Hildesheim: Claassen Verlag 1997. ISBN 3-546-00112-5 . (translated by Dorothée Beckhoff)
  • The short life of Edwin Mullhouse , Munich 1999. ISBN 3-546-00145-1 . (translated by Barbara Rojahn-Deyck)
  • A protest against the sun: Short Stories , Berlin: Berlin Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8270-0811-4 . (selected by Laurenz Bolliger, translated by Eike Schönfeld)
  • Martin Dressler. An American dreamer , Berlin: Berliner Taschenbuch Verlag BVT. ISBN 978-3-8333-0621-1 (translated by Dorethée Beckhoff; revised)
  • Edwin Mullhouse, Life and Death of an American Writer, 1943-1954, by Jeffrey Cartwright : September 2015. ISBN 978-3-902711-32-8 . (Acc .: by Sabrina Gmeiner)
  • Zaubernacht , Vienna: Septime Verlag 2016. ISBN 978-3-902711-54-0 . (translated by Sabrina Gmeiner)
  • Voices in the Night: Short Stories , Vienna: Septime Verlag 2018. ISBN 978-3-902711-70-0 . (translated by Sabrina Gmeiner)

literature

  • Marc Chénetier: Steven Millhauser , Paris 2003

Web links

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  1. ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/16/the-sisterhood-of-night-n_n_1521576.html
personal data
SURNAME Millhauser, Steven
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH new York