1. She was born November 29, 1943 in Chicago.
2. Always busy as a single mother, she didn't publish her first book until 1986.
3. Her first novel, The Good Mother, was made into a movie in 1988.
4. Her second novel, Inventing the Abbots (1987), was also made into a 1997 movie featuring Liv Tyler.
5. Her sixth novel, While I was Gone (1999), was an Oprah's Book Club selection.
6. Her latest novel, The Senator's Wife, came out in 2008.
7. She also has a work of nonfiction entitled The Story of My Father.
8. She is now a professor at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts where she teaches creative writing classes.
What's your favorite book by Sue Miller?
