Nolan Miller (1907,

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– September 30, 2006, Yellow Springs, Ohio) was a noted short story writer and novelist. Miller was the fiction editor of '' The Antioch Review'' and a long-time member of the Antioch College faculty.

Fiction and faculty

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. 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 College, where he served as fiction editor for ''The Antioch Review'' and taught creative writing for more than half a century.

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'' while a student in one of Miller’s classes. Beginning in 1955, 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 ''

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'' and '' The Saturday Evening Post''.

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.

References

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