Sue Miller is an American novelist and short story writer who has written a number of best-selling novels. After a late start (her first book was published when she was 46), Miller has written 11 novels, a collection of short stories, and a memoir of her father, which, along with eight of her other books, was a Times Notable Book of the year. 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, her work has been translated in to 20 languages and two of her novels have been made into feature films.
Miller has won fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe and Bunting Institutes, and MacDowell, as well as a residency at Yaddo. She has taught creative writing classes at Smith College, Amherst, Tufts, MIT, and Boston University. She was on the board of the New England Branch of PEN for ten years, four of which she was chair.
Miller worked on an as-yet-untitled book during her 2024 residency, hoping to combine elements of fiction and non-fiction in a partially invented autobiography.
