author
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 fiction for both adults and children. Much of her work drew on Southern settings and history, giving her stories a strong sense of place.
4 Audiobooks
Christmas at Monticello with Thomas Jefferson
by Helen Topping Miller
Her Christmas at the Hermitage: A Tale About Rachel and Andrew Jackson
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 young and published a story in St. Nicholas at about age fifteen. She graduated from Michigan Agricultural College in 1905, taught school for a time, and later married newspaper owner Frank Roger Miller in 1910.
Her career was remarkably productive: reliable biographical sources credit her with more than forty novels and hundreds of short stories. She also wrote serial fiction for major magazines and, later in life, taught modern fiction writing at Mercer University. Although she was born in Michigan, she became closely associated with the American South, which shaped much of her fiction.
She died on February 4, 1960. Today she is remembered for her historical novels, regional fiction, and for a writing life that stretched from early magazine work into a substantial body of popular books.