Sarah miller author biography

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Many pieces about you borrow from the first line of your bio to trumpet that you started writing a novel at age ten. So, what was 10-year-old Sarah like, as a person and a writer? What do you remember about that early work?

Well…there were unicorns in that first novel. Enough said?

I was the kind of kid who took two dozen library books on vacation. Lined them up by height in my little cupboard in the camper and then marched methodically through the whole shelf, a book a day. Aside from that unicorn novel and one story I attempted in 10th grade, I wasn’t a kid who wrote for fun.

I was really really good at English assignments, though. Although I did have a Harriet the Spy-inspired notebook full of snotty observations in 5th grade.

You mentioned seeing The Miracle Worker performed at the Meadowbrook Theater. You’d seen the film with Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, but seeing it live unlocked a piece of the puzzle that allowed you inside the relationship between Annie Sullivan and Helen Keller.

[As I said in a previous interview,] “And I can't tell you why because I don't know, but seeing it live, for some reason I finally understood what the big deal was for Helen Keller, was that there was no voice in her head.

“And

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Sarah Miller
Goodreads Author

Born
in The United States
Website
http://www.SarahMillerBooks.com

Genre
Historical Fiction, Nonfiction, Biographical Fiction

Member Since
August 2007

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Sarah Miller began writing her first novel at the age of ten, and has spent the last two decades working in libraries and bookstores. She is the author of two previous historical novels, Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller, and The Lost Crown. Her nonfiction debut, The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century, was hailed by the New York Times as "a historical version of Law & Order." She lives in Michigan.
Sarah Miller began writing her first novel at the age of ten, and has spent the last two decades working in libraries and bookstores. She is the author of two previous historical novels, Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller, and The Lost Crown. Her nonfiction debut, The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century, was hailed by the New York Times as "a historical version of Law & Order." She lives in Michigan.
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Series
Books:
Marmee, Nov 2023
Soft cover / e-Book
Caroline, September 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
The Assail Girl, Nov 2010
Midvale Institution #2
Paperback