Andrew Miller

Andrew Brooke Miller (born 29 April 1960) is an English novelist. He has published ten novels and has won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the International Dublin Literary Award, the Costa Book Awards Book of the Year, the Winston Graham Historical Prize and the Walter Scott Prize. He has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Life and career Miller was born in Bristol, England. He grew up in the West Country and has lived in Spain, Japan, Ireland and France. He was educated at Dauntsey's School, and after gaining a first-class degree in English at Middlesex Polytechnic, completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in 1991. In 1995, he wrote a PhD in critical and creative writing at Lancaster University.

For his 1997 first novel, Ingenious Pain, Miller received three awards: the James Tait Black Memorial Award for Fiction, the International Dublin Literary Award, and the Grinzane Cavour Prize in Italy. The book has been translated into 36 languages.

Miller currently lives in Witham Friary in Somerset with his daughter Frieda.