Millicent Dillon

Millicent Dillon is a novelist, short story writer, and biographer.

Reviews

RICK PERLSTEIN, THE NEW YORK OBSERVER on HARRY GOLD -

"Millicent Dillon has created a wondrous and strange work of art. On the surface, her novel is placid, but she's a patient, thoughtful writer whose writing rewards  patience and thoughtfulness and rereading....a real literary achievement." 

PHILIP LOPATE on HARRY GOLD -

"HARRY GOLD"  is a miracle of a novel, a rare act of sympathetic imagination and historical reconstruction, sustained to the very last page. At once tender and chilling, it has the suspenseful, nightmarish yet curiously invigorating grip of a Conrad novel, such as The Secret Agent or Under Western Eyes...."

PHILIP LOPATE on A VERSION OF LOVE –

"Millicent Dillon's novels are haunting and understated and finally uncanny, like all true originals. Her latest, A VERSION OF LOVE, is a mature work of almost spookily controlled intelligence. She deserves to be honored as an American master of fiction."

DIANE JOHNSON on A VERSION OF LOVE –

"[A] brilliant new novel. The assurance and economy with which she gives us this strangely gripping and powerful story of the conjunction of three affecting, solitary people are the hallmarks of a consummate artist, her finest work yet."

MICHAEL UPCHURCH, THE WASHINGTON POST on YOU ARE NOT I –

"Unexpectedly funny, disarmingly intimate, and usefully disorienting ... Dillon's prose is spare and supple, and her offbeat approach to her 'portrait' works like a charm ... The service Dillon has done Bowles and his admirers is rare and welcome ... A pleasure to read in itself, YOU ARE NOT I undoubtedly will become a treasured primary source for future biographers."

THE SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER on AFTER EGYPT –

"Dillon establishes the mysterious and often contradictory impulses of artistic creation in the context of nineteenth century women. ... Dillon merits both our appreciation and amazement."

PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY on THE DANCE OF THE MOTHERS –

"Dillon's delicate touch with the subtle changes these women experience gives their stories the immediacy and impact of dance itself."

EDMUND WHITE on A LITTLE ORIGINAL SIN –

"A thorough biography of Jane Bowles, a book that never cheaply psychoanalyzes its subject but rather presents the woman and her work with sensitivity and admiration. . . . Grim as [Jane Bowles's] personal story may be, the luminous pages she left behind comprise some of the best American fiction we have. She is far more genuine and original than many other more celebrated writers.”

KAY BOYLE on THE ONE IN THE BACK IS MEDEA –

"This is indeed a unique, exciting, and beautiful book"

LAEL WERTENBAKER on BABY PERPETUA AND OTHER STORIES –

"Dillon has an amazing gift for re-creating the off-beat character you may not have met. ... This new writer has the greatest of the old gifts, the ability to install new people in your mind."