Other Literary Forms
Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer, 1943-1954, by Jeffrey Cartwright, A Novel (1972) was Steven Millhauser’s acclaimed debut novel. His next two novels, Portrait of a Romantic (1977) and From the Realm of Morpheus (1986), were less successful, to the point of relegating him to relative obscurity. Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (1996), however, restored his reputation; early collections of his short fiction were brought back into print, and new ones became easier to publish.
Achievements
Martin Dressler won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1997. Steven Millhauser has also been given an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1987, and received a Lannan Fellowship. He also received a Prix Médicis Étranger in 1975, a World Fantasy award in 1990, and a Lannan Literary Award for fiction in 1994.
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