Talk:Warren Miller (author)

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The article, while a good effort, does not adequately describe the prestige of Miller's The Cool World in its time. I was already a novelist in that era and can vouch for that, but just look at the A List Black artists that worked on the movie and you can guess. Great opportunity for research. If you just want to read a good novel, try it. It's like an early version of Richard Price's best works, or at times, The Wire. By the end of the Civil Rights era, it became impossible to praise a novel in which a white man wrote so well in a Black man's voice. Cultural imperialism! Who reads Styron's Nat Turner now, which was a Great American Novel in its day? Times have changed, though. Spike Lee gave way to Will Smith, people are more relaxed, and in Obama's age, The Cool World could be politically correct to praise again. Its quality can't be debated, only whether a white Professor dare praise it in print. In its day everyone did, Black and White. Footnote: he took his lovely pen name, Amanda Vail, from a little girl he knew named Amanda Vaill, who later became one of my editors, and a Guggenheim winning author in her own right. And was she sore! Profhum (talk) 17:18, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

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The main section reads, "because of his early death due to lung cancer and his outspoken political views he has remained relatively unknown." Suggesting that 'outspoken political views' resulted in Mr. Miller being relatively unknown is speculation, and counter-intuitive speculation at that. People who are outspoken are attempting to gain notoriety. This section should be edited, or a valid citation showing how his outspokenness resulted in his being less known than had he remained silent, given. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:CC88:DD19:9922:BD35:6D12:D919 (talk) 01:53, 13 September 2014 (UTC)