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Mary Ashe Miller
A little-known early 20th-century writer, she is remembered today for co-authoring the story behind the 1922 silent film The Man Who Married His Own Wife. What survives suggests a literary life connected to magazine work, fiction, and the West Coast writing world of her time.
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The closed door
by John Fleming Wilson, Mary Ashe Miller
About the author
Mary Ashe Miller was an American writer born in Stockton, California, in 1874 and later buried in Las Vegas after her death in 1953. Confirmed records for her life are sparse, but surviving references show that she worked as a writer in the early 1900s.
She is most clearly documented as the co-author, with John Fleming Wilson, of The Closed Door, a story preserved by Project Gutenberg. Film references also connect her to The Man Who Married His Own Wife (1922), which was based on a story by Wilson and Miller.
A passage in History of Oregon Literature adds a little more texture, describing her as someone who had worked with Wilson in the editorial rooms of The Pacific Monthly. Because so little biographical material is easy to verify, her story feels fragmentary today—but that only makes her surviving work more interesting.