Adrienne Miller (born 1972) is an American
writer
A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing styles and techniques to communicate ideas. Writers produce different forms of literary art and creative writing such as novels, short stories, books, poetry, travelogues, p ...
. From 1997 to 2005, she was the fiction editor of ''
Esquire''.
Early life
Miller was born in 1972 in
Columbus, Ohio. She lived in a small farming community surrounded by silos and cornfields until she was nine years old. At nine, her parents moved to a suburb of
Akron, Ohio
Akron () is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Summit County. It is located on the western edge of the Glaciated Allegheny Plateau, about south of downtown Cleveland. As of the 2020 Census, the city prop ...
.
Working life
Miller moved to
New York City, New York
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in the spring of 1994, a week before her college graduation. She worked at ''
GQ'', as an editorial assistant, then as an assistant editor. In 1997, she became the literary editor of ''
Esquire'', a position she held until leaving in 2005. In 2006, that position was filled by
Tom Chiarella. Her novel, ''The Coast of Akron'', was published by
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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in 2005.
During the fall semester of 2009, Miller took a teaching position at the University of Pennsylvania's College of Arts and Sciences, where she taught a writing seminar on Russian author
Vladimir Nabokov
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and Swedish filmmaker
Ingmar Bergman.
Miller's 2020 memoir, ''In the Land of Men'', was called a literary junkie's "dream come true" by Associated Press reviewer Lincee Ray.
Personal life
In the March 2018 issue of ''
Vogue
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Business
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'', Miller published an account of the sexual harassment she encountered at ''GQ'' and ''Esquire''.
Bibliography
*Miller, Adrienne, ''The Coast of Akron'' (New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005).
*Miller, Adrienne. ''In the Land of Men: A Memoir.'' (Ecco, 2020.)
Resources
Interview with Adrienne Miller'
References
See also
{{DEFAULTSORT:Miller, Adrienne
1972 births
Living people
21st-century American novelists
American women novelists
American magazine editors
Writers from Columbus, Ohio
21st-century American women writers
Journalists from Ohio
Novelists from Ohio
American women non-fiction writers
Women magazine editors
21st-century American memoirists