Marianne Hauser's novel, "Prince Ishmael" (1989) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and selected by the "New York Times" as one of the year's outstanding books.
In the course of her long career, Marianne Hauser published numerous works of fiction, including Prince Ishmael, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and selected by The New York Times as one of the year's outstanding books. Her other books include Monique, Shadow Play in India, Dark Dominion, The Choir Invisible, A Lesson in Music, Me & My Mom, The Memoirs of the Late Mr. Ashley, and The Talking Room. She died in June 2006, at the age of ninety-five.
Her characters are rounded and vivid, and indeed enlivened by a baroque diffuseness of description.... The descriptions are lyrical, sensuous and subjective.... - London Times Literary Supplement; ""It is a remarkably beautiful novel, rich in imagination, profound in insight, flawless in style."" - Chicago Tribune
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