Madeline Miller
, b. 1978
Madeline Miller was born July 24th, 1978, and grew up in New York City and Philadelphia. She gained a Bachelor of Arts in 2000, and a Master of Arts in Classical Studies in 2001 from Brown University. She then went on to become a high school teacher, teaching Greek, Latin, and Shakespeare for over fifteen years. In 2009 she studied in the Dramaturgy department of Yale School of Drama, focusing on the adaption of classical texts into modern forms. The Song of Achilles was her debut novel in 2011, being awarded the Orange Prize for fiction in 2012, as well as being a New York Times Bestseller. She was also shortlisted for the 2012 Stonewall Writer of the Year. Miller’s second novel, Circe, was a 2018 number 1 New York Times Bestseller, won the Indies Choice Best Adult Fiction of the Year Award, and the Indies Choice Best Audiobook of the Year Award, also being shortlisted for the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction. It also won an American Library Association Alex Award, the The Kitschies Red Tentacle Award, and the 2018 Elle Big Book Award. Her other publications consist of two short stories, Heracles’ Bow in 2012, a companion to The Song of Achilles which tells the story of how Philoctetes suffered a snake bite and was abandoned by his companions, and Galatea in 2013, a retelling of the Greek myth of Pygmalion from the perspective of his sculpture.
Sources:
Wikipedia (accessed: September 9, 2022).
Official Website (accessed: September 9, 2022).
Bio prepared by Helen Oliver, Victoria University of Wellington, helenlouise609@gmail.com
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