Sue Miller

• Born: 1943
• Birthplace: Chicago, Il

Sue Miller was nearly 40 years old when she had her first story published, in 1981. A graduate of Harvard University, she married at the age of 20 and had a child five years later. When her son, Ben, was three, Miller and her husband separated and Miller was a single parent, working in day care, taking in boarders, studying the piano and writing. After the publication of her first story, she began to teach in various writing programs in Boston.

She had a Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe and published her first novel, The Good Mother, which became instantly popular. Miller's other novels include Family Pictures, The Distinguished Guest, While I Was Gone, The World Below and Lost in the Forest. She also published a collection of short stories, Inventing the Abbotts, and a memoir about her father's death from Alzheimer's disease, The Story of My Father.

Most Famous Works

• The Good Mother (1986)
• Family Pictures (1990)
• While I Was Gone (1999)
• Lost in the Forest (2005)

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This article is about the best-selling author. For the fictional character, see Sue Miller (EastEnders).

Sue Miller (born November 29, 1943 in Chicago) is an American writer who has authored a number of best-selling novels. Her duties as a single mother left her with little time to write for many years, and 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. Sue Miller is now a professor at Smith College in Northampton Massachusetts where she teaches creative writing classes.

Fiction books

• The Good Mother (1986), made into a movie in 1988
• Inventing the Abbotts (1987), made into a movie in 1997
• Family Pictures (1990)
• For Love (1993)
• The Distinguished Guest (1995)
• While I Was Gone (1999)
• The World Below (2001)
• Lost in the Forest (2005)
• The Senator's Wife (2008)

Nonfiction books

• The Story of My Father (2004)

External links

• Reading from The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller at the Portland (Maine) Public Library, January 2008.

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