Walter M. Miller Jr.
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Walter Michael Miller Jr. (January 23, 1923 to January 9, 1996) was an American science fiction writer.
He is best known for his book A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), the only book he published in his lifetime.
He was a writer of short stories prior to its publication.
Early life
Miller was born in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, on January 23, 1923. He was educated at the University of Tennessee and the University of Texas, and as an engineer. He served in the Army Air Forces as a radioman and tail gunner, flying more than 50 bombing missions around Italy during World War II. He was involved in the devastation of the Benedictine Abbey in Monte Cassino, which was a traumatic experience for him. Miller "had post-traumatic stress disorder for 30 years before it had been identified," Joe Haldeman said, and that Miller had prominently in his living room a photograph taken of Ron Kovic.
Miller converted to Catholicism after the war. In 1945, he married Anna Louise Becker, and they had four children. In 1953, he worked with science-fiction writer Judith Merril.
Career
Miller wrote over three dozen science fiction short stories between 1951 and 1957, one of which received a Hugo Award in 1955 for the story "The Darfsteller." In 1953, he wrote scripts for Captain Video, a television show.
Miller compiled a book from three closely related novellas he had published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1955, 1956, and 1957. In 1959, Leibowitz' novel A Canticle for Leibowitz was published. It's a post-apocalyptic novel based on Saint Leibowitz' canonization and is considered a masterpiece of the genre. It received the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
Miller ceased releasing after the success of A Canticle for Leibowitz, but there are several compilations of Miller's earlier works from the 1960s and 1970s. In 1981, WHA Radio and NPR produced a radio version of A Canticle for Leibowitz, which is also available on CD. By the BBC in 1992, a radio version of the first two parts was broadcast in the United Kingdom; further information can be found on the BBC Genome Project.