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Warren Miller (author)

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Warren Miller(-1966), was an American writer. Although he gained some notoriety for his books dealing with issues of race, as in The Cool World and The Siege of Harlem, and for his more political books such as Looking for The General and Flush Times, because of his early death due to lung cancer and his outspoken political views he has been left relatively unknown today.

Biography

He received his Bachelors and Masters from the University of Iowa, and remained there as an instructor of literature during the 1950s. He had two daughters by Abigail his first wife, Scottie and Eve. He later remarried to Bird.


Works


Films

The book The Cool World was first made into a play and then a move in 1964 directed by Shirley Clarke, produced by Frederick Wiseman, and with musical score by Dizzy Gillespie.


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