Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer Steven Millhauser, the visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in The Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, will read from his work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 12.
In addition, Millhauser will speak on the craft of fiction at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 19.
Both talks, which are part of the program’s fall reading series, are free and open to the public and will take place in Duncker Hall’s Hurst Lounge.
Millhauser is the author of 10 novels and story collections, including Martin Dressler, The Tale of an American Dreamer, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1997. The Illusionist, a 2006 film directed by Neil Burger and starring Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti, is based on his short story “Eisenheim the Illusionist.”
Other books include Edwin Mullhouse (1972), In the Penny Arcade (1986), The Barnum Museum (1990) and The Knife Thrower and Other Stories (1998).
Millhauser teaches at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
For more information, call 935-7130.