Merle Miller, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Merle Miller

American novelist and writer on homosexuality

Date of Birth: 17-May-1919

Date of Death: 10-Jun-1986

Profession: biographer, novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Merle Dale Miller (May 17, 1919 – June 10, 1986) was an American writer, novelist, and author who is perhaps best remembered for his best-selling biography of Harry S.
Truman, and as a pioneer in the gay rights movement. Miller came out of the closet in an article in the New York Times Magazine on January 17, 1971, titled "What It Means to Be a Homosexual".
The response of over 2,000 letters to the article (more than ever received by that newspaper) led to a book publication later that year.
The book was reprinted by Penguin Classics in 2012, with a new foreword by Dan Savage and a new afterword by Charles Kaiser.