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Merle Dale Miller (May 17, 1919 – June 10, 1986) was an American writer, novelist, and author who is perhaps best remembered for his best-selling biography of Harry S. Truman, and as a pioneer in the gay rights movement.
October 21, 2012. “On Being Different: What It Means to Be Homosexual” is an essay the writer Merle Miller published in The New York Times Magazine two years after the 1969 Stonewall Riots, a time when the newspaper used the word gay, but only in quotation marks.
Merle Miller, born in Montour, Iowa, wrote almost a dozen books, including more than half a dozen novels. His first, ''That Winter'' (1948), was considered one of the best novels about the postwar readjustment of World War II veterans.
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Jun 11, 1986 · Merle Miller, a former president of the Authors Guild who wrote best-selling oral biographies of Harry S. Truman and Lyndon B. Johnson, died yesterday at Danbury (Conn.) Hospital of an...
Oct 5, 2012 · This piece is excerpted from Dan Savage’s foreword to the new Penguin Classics edition of Merle Miller’s On Being Different: What It Means to Be a Homosexual, out this month.
- Dan Savage
Jul 23, 2022 · If you were a gay man, alive and writing in the U.S. in 1980, you undoubtedly knew who Merle Miller was! He’d been around for years, working as a novelist, writer for hire, was briefly ...
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Jun 11, 1986 · Merle Miller, a best-selling biographer of Presidents who also was among the first of American homosexual artists to publicly tell of the travails connected with their sexual preferences, died...