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Sue Miller (born November 29, 1943) is an American novelist and short story writer who has written a number of best-selling novels. She graduated from Radcliffe College.

Biography

Born in Chicago, Miller was preoccupied with her duties as a single mother, leaving little time to write for many years. As a result, she did not publish her first novel until 1986, after spending almost a decade in various fellowships and teaching positions.

Since then, two of her novels have been made into feature films, and her book While I Was Gone was an Oprah's Book Club pick in 2000. Miller has taught creative writing classes at Smith College, Amherst, Tufts, MIT, and Boston University.

Selected works

Novels

• The Good Mother: a novel (1986) ISBN 9780060505936, made into a movie in 1988
• Family Pictures: a novel (1990) ISBN 9780575403215
• For Love: a novel (1993) ISBN 9780060929992
• The Distinguished Guest: a novel (1995) ISBN 9780060930004
• While I Was Gone: a novel (1999) ISBN 9780345443281
• The World Below: a novel (2001) ISBN 9780747584582
• Lost in the Forest: a novel (2005) ISBN 9780345469595
• The Senator's Wife: a novel (2008) ISBN 9780307264206
• The Lake Shore Limited: a novel (2010) ISBN 9780307264213
• The Arsonist: a novel (2014) ISBN 9780307594792
• Monogamy: a novel (2020) ISBN 9780062969651

Short story collections

• Inventing the Abbotts and Other Stories (1987) ISBN 9780060929978, made into a movie in 1997

Memoirs

• The Story of My Father (2003) ISBN 9780375414794

References

1. Fein, Esther (1993-05-13). "You Read The Book, Now Quiz The Author". The New York Times. Retrieved January 26, 2010.
2. Gussow, Mel (1999-03-08). "Sue Miller Discovers A Trove of Domesticity; What Lies Beneath the Family Surface And Lays Bare the Search for Another Self". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
3. "Author Interview: Sue Miller". 2015-02-15. Archived from the original on 2017-03-16. Retrieved 2015-11-30.

External links

• Author website
• Reading from The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller at the Portland (Maine) Public Library, January 2008. Archived 2008-12-18 at the Wayback Machine

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