Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer, 1943-1954.

The Nation | May 6, 1996| | Copyright

On the surface, Steven Millhauser's first novel, Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954, and his most recent, Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer, appear radically different in subject and scope. Edwin Mullhouse--the outrageously exhaustive literary biography (written by an 11-year-old!) of a writer whose "Early," "Middle" and "Late" periods span kindergarten through fifth grade--counts the angels on the head of a pin. Martin Dressler, in contrast, constructs a grand cosmology (a vast, turn-of-the-century New York City hotel ...

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