Novels The Song of Achilles Ĭirce, Miller's second novel, was released on April 10, 2018. Instead, she prefers books by James Herriot and Chinua Achebe. As she herself indicated, she hates the "ideas behind it". Miller expressed "hate" and "visceral disgust" towards Ayn Rand's book The Fountainhead. Miller told a reporter from The Guardian that her inspirations include David Mitchell, Lorrie Moore, Anne Carson, and Virgil. As of May 2012 Miller lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts teaching and writing. She also studied for a year at the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought working towards a PhD and from 2009 to 2010 at the Yale School of Drama for an MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism. After graduating from Brown University with a bachelor's and master's in Classics (20, respectively), Miller then went on to teach Latin, Greek, and Shakespeare to high school students. Miller was born on July 24, 1978, in Boston and grew up in New York City and Philadelphia. She is a 2019 recipient of the Alex Awards. The novel tells the story of the love between the mythological figures Achilles and Patroclus it won the Orange Prize for Fiction, making Miller the fourth debut novelist to win the prize. Miller spent ten years writing The Song of Achilles while she worked as a teacher of Latin and Greek. Madeline Miller (born July 24, 1978) is an American novelist, author of The Song of Achilles (2011) and Circe (2018).
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