Sue Miller

{{short description|American novelist}} {{other people||Susan Miller (disambiguation)}} {{infobox writer |name= Sue Miller |birth_date={{birth date and age|1943|11|29}} |birth_place=Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |occupation={{flatlist| *Novelist *short story writer }} |nationality=American |alma_mater=Radcliffe College |website={{URL|https://www.suemillernovelist.com}} }} '''Sue Miller''' (born November 29, 1943) is an American novelist and short story writer who has written a number of best-selling novels.<ref name="nytimes_1993">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/13/books/you-read-the-book-now-quiz-the-author.html?pagewanted=all|title=You Read The Book, Now Quiz The Author|last=Fein|first=Esther|work=The New York Times|accessdate=January 26, 2010|date=1993-05-13}}</ref> She graduated from Radcliffe College.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gussow |first=Mel |date=1999-03-08 |title=Sue Miller Discovers A Trove of Domesticity; What Lies Beneath the Family Surface And Lays Bare the Search for Another Self |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/08/books/sue-miller-discovers-trove-domesticity-what-lies-beneath-family-surface-lays.html |access-date=2023-08-15 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

==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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tucsonfestivalofbooks.org/?id=213|title=Author Interview: Sue Miller|date=2015-02-15|accessdate=2015-11-30|archive-date=2017-03-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170316154100/http://tucsonfestivalofbooks.org/?id=213|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== 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== {{reflist}}

==External links== * [https://www.suemillernovelist.com/ Author website] * [http://mainehumanities.org/podcasts/index.html Reading from ''The Senator's Wife'' by Sue Miller at the Portland (Maine) Public Library, January 2008.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081218184739/http://mainehumanities.org/podcasts/index.html |date=2008-12-18 }}

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