Laura Miller (writer)
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Laura Miller is an American journalist and critic based in New York City. She is a co-founder of Salon.com.[1]
Biography[]
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."[2]
Career[]
In 1995, Miller helped to co-found Salon.com[1] and in 2000 she edited The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors with Adam Begley.[3]
In 2008 she authored 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 as an adult after realizing its heavy use of religious themes.[4] In 2016, Miller edited Literary Wonderlands, a literary encyclopedia chronicling the history of fiction.[5]
Currently she is Slate's Books and Culture columnist.[6]
Bibliography[]
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Title | Year | Type | Publisher |
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The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia | 2008 | Nonfiction | Little Brown and Company |
Literary Wonderlands: A Journey Through the Greatest Fictional Worlds Ever Created | 2016 | Literary encyclopedia | Black Dog & Leventhal |
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Reviewers & Critics: Laura Miller of Slate". Poets & Writers. 2017-02-15. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
- ^ "The Magician's Book Conjures the Magic of Narnia by Review-a-Day". www.powells.com. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
- ^ "The Millions: The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors by Laura Miller". Retrieved 2019-08-19.
- ^ The Magician's Book. 2017-06-27.
- ^ Greer, Andrew Sean (Dec 2, 2016). "Great Fictional Worlds From the Past 2,000 Years". The New York Times. Retrieved 2021-02-24.
- ^ "Laura Miller". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
- Living people
- American essayists
- American literary critics
- Women literary critics
- American women essayists
- American women journalists
- Salon (website) people
- The New York Times writers
- The New Yorker people