Russell Miller

For the baseball player, see Russ Miller. For the drummer, see Russ Miller (musician). For the American law professor, see Russell A. Miller. For the New Zealand politician, see F. Russell Miller.

Russell Miller
Bornc. 1938 (age 85–86)
London, United Kingdom
Occupation(s)Journalist,
Author
Awards

Russell Miller (born c. 1938) is a British journalist and author of fifteen books, including biographies of Hugh Hefner, J. Paul Getty and L. Ron Hubbard.[1]

While under contract to The Sunday Times Magazine he won four press awards and was voted Writer of the Year by the Society of British Magazine Editors. His book Magnum: Fifty Years at the Front Line of History: The Story of the Legendary Photo Agency (1999) on Magnum Photos, was described by John Simpson as "the best book on photo-journalism I have ever read".[2] His oral histories of D-Day, Nothing Less Than Victory (1993), and the SOE, Behind The Lines (2002) were widely acclaimed, both in Britain and in the United States.[2]

  1. ^ Campbell, Duncan (4 December 1987). "Bored to distraction". New Statesman. p. 32.
  2. ^ a b "Russell Miller". Peters, Fraser & Dunlop. 2013. Retrieved 23 August 2013.