Mary Miller (author)

Mary Miller (2013)

Mary Miller (born June 9, 1977 in Texas ) is an American author .

Life

Mary Miller studied literature at the University of Southern Mississippi and now lives in Austin . She is the author of two collections of short stories. Less Shiny (2008) is a so-called short Chapbook , while Big World (2009) was published by Short Flight / Long Drive Books , which is affiliated with the American literary magazine Hobart . Individual short stories were translated into German and appeared in the magazine Krachkultur . Miller's debut novel Sweet King Jesus was first published in 2013 in the German translation by Alissa Walser , and in 2014 it was published in the English original as The Last Days of California .

Works

• Less shiny. Stories. 2008.
• Big World. Stories. 2009, ISBN 978-0-9749-5418-9 .
  • German: Big World. Stories. From the American by Alissa Walser . dtv, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-423-28093-8 .
• The Last Days of California. Novel. 2014, ISBN 978-0-8714-0588-3 .
  • German: Sweet King Jesus. Novel. From the American and with an afterword by Alissa Walser. Metrolit, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-8493-0311-2 .

Individual stories in German translation

• Ropes over muddy rivers. From the American by Werner Loch-Lawrence . In: Krachkultur. 14/2012, pp. 5-16.
• Angel. From the American by Christine Lederer. In: Krachkultur. 14/2012, pp. 17-18.
• Cedars of Lebanon. From the American by Friederike Moldenhauer. In: Krachkultur. 15/2013, pp. 43-67.

literature

• Martin Brinkmann : Not because of gray shadows. The new hardship in US female literature. In: Krachkultur. 15/2013, pp. 84-88.

Web links

• Literature by and about Mary Miller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Mary Miller at perlentaucher.de
• Mary Miller at goodreads.com (English)
• Sweet King Jesus on the website of the Metrolit publishing house

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sweet King Jesus - press reviews. metrolit.de, accessed on December 30, 2013.