Nolan Miller (author)
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Nolan Miller was a noted short story author and novelist. Miller was the fiction editor of The Antioch Review and a long-time member of the Antioch College faculty.
. While working as a Detroit, Michigan
high school teacher, Miller wrote short stories. A story in The Atlantic Monthly prompted Atlantic editor Edward Weeks to recommend Miller as an Antioch College "writer in residence".
In 1946, he was invited to join the faculty at Antioch, where he served as fiction editor for The Antioch Review and taught creative writing for more than half a century. Rod Serling
wrote the first version of his award-winning script Requiem for a Heavyweight
while a student in one of Miller’s classes.
Beginning in 1957, Miller edited the New Campus Writing series, collecting the best of creative writing from America’s colleges. He became the first fiction editor of The Antioch Review in 1965. He wrote four novels: Why I Am So Beat (Putnam, 1954). Sarah Belle Luella Mae, A Moth of Time and The Merry Innocents. His 1959 short story “A New Life” was included in the O. Henry Prize Awards. His stories also appeared in Collier's
and The Saturday Evening Post
.
After Miller retired in 1972, he remained active with The Antioch Review. He died in 2006 at the age of 99.
Fiction and faculty
Miller attended Wayne State University where he received both a BA and an MA. His favorite authors were Wordsworth, Proust, Joyce and D. H. LawrenceD. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Richards Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published as D. H. Lawrence. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation...
. While working as a Detroit, Michigan
Detroit, Michigan
Detroit is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people. As the seat of Wayne County, the city of Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and serves as a major port on the Detroit River...
high school teacher, Miller wrote short stories. A story in The Atlantic Monthly prompted Atlantic editor Edward Weeks to recommend Miller as an Antioch College "writer in residence".
In 1946, he was invited to join the faculty at Antioch, where he served as fiction editor for The Antioch Review and taught creative writing for more than half a century. Rod Serling
Rod Serling
Rodman Edward "Rod" Serling was an American screenwriter, novelist, television producer, and narrator best known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his science fiction anthology TV series, The Twilight Zone. Serling was active in politics, both on and off the screen and helped form...
wrote the first version of his award-winning script Requiem for a Heavyweight
Requiem for a Heavyweight
Requiem for a Heavyweight was a teleplay written by Rod Serling and produced for the live television show Playhouse 90 on 11 October 1956. Six years later, it was adapted as a 1962 feature film starring Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason and Mickey Rooney....
while a student in one of Miller’s classes.
Beginning in 1957, Miller edited the New Campus Writing series, collecting the best of creative writing from America’s colleges. He became the first fiction editor of The Antioch Review in 1965. He wrote four novels: Why I Am So Beat (Putnam, 1954). Sarah Belle Luella Mae, A Moth of Time and The Merry Innocents. His 1959 short story “A New Life” was included in the O. Henry Prize Awards. His stories also appeared in Collier's
Collier's Weekly
Collier's Weekly was an American magazine founded by Peter Fenelon Collier and published from 1888 to 1957. With the passage of decades, the title was shortened to Collier's....
and The Saturday Evening Post
The Saturday Evening Post
The Saturday Evening Post is a bimonthly American magazine. It was published weekly under this title from 1897 until 1969, and quarterly and then bimonthly from 1971.-History:...
.
Awards
Miller was a recipient of the Hopwood Award from the University of Michigan.After Miller retired in 1972, he remained active with The Antioch Review. He died in 2006 at the age of 99.