Sue Miller





Sue Miller

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December 29, 1943 in The United States

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Sue Miller (born November 29, 1943 in Chicago) is an American writer who has authored a number of best-selling novels. Her duties as a single mother left her with little time to write for many years, and as a result she did not publish her first novel until 1986, after spending almost a decade in various fellowships and teaching positions. Since then, two of her novels have been made into feature films, and her book While I Was Gone was an Oprah's Book Club pick in 2000.



Average rating: 3.43 · 29806 ratings · 2732 reviews · 40 distinct works
While I Was Gone
3.48 of 5 stars 348 avg rating — 14675 ratings — published 1999 — 30 editions
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The Senator's Wife
3.17 of 5 stars 317 avg rating — 4731 ratings — published 2008 — 19 editions
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The Good Mother
3.66 of 5 stars 366 avg rating — 2787 ratings — published 1986 — 12 editions
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Family Pictures
3.73 of 5 stars 373 avg rating — 1304 ratings — published 1991 — 10 editions
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The Lake Shore Limited
3.25 of 5 stars 325 avg rating — 1557 ratings — published 2010 — 11 editions
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Lost in the Forest
3.27 of 5 stars 327 avg rating — 1362 ratings — published 2005 — 14 editions
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World Below
3.4 of 5 stars 340 avg rating — 1374 ratings — published 1993 — 16 editions
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For Love
3.3 of 5 stars 330 avg rating — 577 ratings — published 1993 — 23 editions
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The Distinguished Guest
3.19 of 5 stars 319 avg rating — 515 ratings9 editions
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Inventing the Abbots and Ot...
3.44 of 5 stars 344 avg rating — 410 ratings11 editions
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“But perhaps this is all to the good. Perhaps it’s best to live with the possibility that around any corner, at any time, may come the person who reminds you of your own capacity to surprise yourself, to put at risk everything that’s dear to you. Who reminds you of the distances we have to bridge to begin to know anything about one another. Who reminds you that what seems to be—even about yourself—may not be. That like him, you need to be forgiven.”
Sue Miller, While I Was Gone

“I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind.”
Sue Miller, While I Was Gone

“But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memory the things that vanish, that are taken away. We fix them in our minds forever by yearning, by pain, by crying out. Pain, the pain that seems unbearable at the time, is memory's first imprinting step, the cornerstone of the temple we erect inside us in memory of the dead. Pain is part of memory, and memory is a God-given gift.”
Sue Miller

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