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Laura Miller | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 12, 1960 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, Book Critic, Founder of Salon.com |
| Website | www |
Laura Miller (born February 12, 1960)[1] is an American journalist and critic based in New York City. She is a co-founder of Salon.com, where she is currently a staff writer, and a contributor to the New York Times Book Review, where she wrote the "Last Word" column for two years. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, Time, the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian and other publications. She is the author of The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia and co-editor of The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors.
Personal Life
[edit]Miller was raised as a Catholic and grew up in California. (She has since said she deplores the Church's "guilt-mongering and tedious rituals.") In 1995, Miller helped to co-found Salon.com.
Education
[edit]Career
[edit]In 1995, Miller helped to co-found Salon.com.
She is the author of The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia, a book about C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia fantasy series, her enchantment with it as a child, and her disenchantment with it when she realized its heavy-handed Christian parallels as an adult.
Works
[edit]Original books
[edit]- The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia (Little, Brown, 2008)
Essays
[edit]- It's OK to admit that H.P. Lovecraft was a racist (September, 2014)[2]
Selected Articles and Reviews
[edit]- The Strange Case of Nordic Detectives (January 2010)[3]
- A Recipe for Escapism (May, 2009)[4]
- Not your father's roadmaster: Stephen King's thriller revolves around an evil Buick that's connected to another dimension (September, 2002)[5]
As editor
[edit]- The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors with Adam Begley (Penguin, 2000)
Events
[edit]- Rutgers-Camden Summer Writers' Conference, faculty, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey (June/July 2015)[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Laura Miller". Contemporary Authors Online. Gale. March 25, 2010.
{{cite journal}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ Miller, Laura (September 11, 2014). "It's OK to admit that H.P. Lovecraft was a racist". Salon.com. Salon Media Group Inc. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
- ^ Miller, Laura (January 16, 2010). "The Strange Case of the Nordic Detectives". Wall Street Journal. p. 3, Section W. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
- ^ Miller, Laura (May 2, 2009). "A Recipe for Escapism". The Wall Street Journal. p. 3, Section W. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
- ^ Miller, Laura (September 29, 2002). "Not your father's roadmaster: Stephen King's thriller revolves around an evil Buick that's connected to another dimension". New York Times Book Review. p. 7.8.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ Isokawa, Dana (May–June 2015). "Conferences and Residencies". Poets and Writers. 43 (3): 117–124.
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