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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.
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.)...
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,...
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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“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. What a great service, then, Penguin Classics has done readers everywhere.
Oct 11, 2012 · Merle Miller, who had been an editor at Harper’s and who was a well-respected and best-selling author (and veteran of the Second World War), felt “outraged and saddened” to read Epstein’s...
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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.
