Lisa Miller

Lisa Miller (born 1963) is an American writer and journalist working for The New York Times. Formerly a contributing editor for New York magazine, a senior editor of Newsweek and a religion columnist for The Washington Post, Miller is a Wilbur Prize-winning author and a commentator on religion, history, and religious faith.

She has written Newsweek cover stories on Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, and Sarah Palin, as well as several New York cover stories on social trends.

Personal life Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Miller was raised in a secular Jewish home. She attended Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, graduating in English in 1984. She worked at the Harvard Business Review, The New Yorker, and The Wall Street Journal.

Miller was married to her husband in an interfaith ceremony performed by an Episcopalian priest who worked with a rabbi on the ceremony. and a contributing editor for New York. In January 2024, Miller was hired by The New York Times as a domestic correspondent for the paper's Well health section.

Books Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife (2010) , a history and personal memoir exploring the idea of heaven in Western culture.