Sue Miller is born
Contemporary novelist Sue Miller is born this day in Boston.Miller graduated from Radcliffe College in 1964 and briefly worked as a high school teacher.She later worked as a model a cocktail waitress and administered psychological tests to rats in a university lab.She took three different masters degrees in creative writing teaching English and early-childhood education.
She taught preschool for eight years and married.When she was 35 she took a creative writing workshop and almost immediately published several short stories.In 1986 she published her first novel The Good Mother about a single mother whose ex-husband sues for custody of their child because shes involved with another man.Critics praised the books maturity grace and subtlety and expressed surprise at finding these qualities in a first novel.Miller has continued to write accomplished novels portraying the modern family including Family Pictures (1990) about rearing an autistic child For Love (1993) about a woman who returns to her childhood home after her mothers death and While I Was Gone (1999) about a happily married veterinarian who flirts with the idea of an affair when an old lover moves to town.
In 2001 she published The World Below and in 2005 Lost in the Forest.
