Merle Miller
From QueerBio.com
Country
United States
Birth - Death
1918 - 1986
Occupation
Writer
Description
Novelist and screenwriter, who came out in a New York Times article titled 'What it Means to be a Homosexual' in 1971. Noted as the author of the book 'Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman'. Also author of the novels 'That Winter' (1948), 'Island 49' (1945), 'The Sure Thing' (1949), 'Reunion' (1954), 'A Day in Late September' (1956), 'A Secret Understanding' (1961), 'A Gay and Melancholy Sound' (1962), and 'What Happened' (1972). Book reviewer for The Saturday Review of Literature and a contributing editor for The Nation.