Madeline Miller | |
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Miller in 2013 | |
Born | [1] Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | July 24, 1978
Education | Brown University (BA, MA) University of Chicago Yale University |
Notable works | The Song of Achilles Circe |
Notable awards | Orange Prize for Fiction (2012) |
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Madeline Miller (born July 24, 1978) is an American novelist, author of The Song of Achilles (2011) and Circe (2018). Miller spent ten years writing The Song of Achilles while she worked as a teacher of Latin and Greek. The novel tells the story of the love between the mythological figures Achilles and Patroclus; it won the Orange Prize for Fiction, making Miller the fourth debut novelist to win the prize. She is a 2019 recipient of the Alex Awards.