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Merle Dale Miller [1] (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 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...
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.)...
“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 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.
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...
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.
Apr 24, 2018 · Plain Speaking is the bestselling book based on conversations between Merle Miller and the thirty-third President of the United States, Harry S. Truman. From these interviews, as well as others...
Jul 21, 2008 · Merle Miller, 67, author who turned taped interviews into controversial oral histories of Presidents Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson; of an abdominal infection; in Danbury, Conn. More...
Sep 25, 2012 · The groundbreaking work on being homosexual in America—available again only from Penguin Classics and with a new foreword by Dan Savage. Originally published in 1971, Merle Miller’s On Being...
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