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Helen Topping Miller
1884–1960
A prolific American novelist and short-story writer, she began publishing while still a teenager and went on to build a long career writing for both adults and children. Much of her fiction drew on Southern settings and history, especially the Reconstruction era.
4 Audiobooks
Her Christmas at the Hermitage: A Tale About Rachel and Andrew Jackson
by Helen Topping Miller
Christmas at Monticello with Thomas Jefferson
by Helen Topping Miller
Christmas at Sagamore Hill with Theodore Roosevelt
by Helen Topping Miller
Christmas for Tad: A Story of Mary and Abraham Lincoln
by Helen Topping Miller
About the author
Born in Fenton, Michigan, on December 8, 1884, she started writing early and had a story published in St. Nicholas when she was fifteen. She graduated from Michigan Agricultural College in 1905, taught school for a short time, and later made her home in Tennessee.
Over the course of her career, she produced dozens of novels along with hundreds of short stories and magazine serials. Reliable sources describe her as a long-time Southern resident whose books often focused on the South, including historical romances set during the Reconstruction period.
She died on February 4, 1960. Her work remains notable for its steady productivity and for the way it brought popular historical and regional fiction to a wide readership.