Walter M. Miller, Jr.
| Full Name: |
Walter
Michael
Miller |
| Born: |
January 23, 1923
New Smyrna Beach, Florida, USA |
| Died: |
January 9, 1996
Daytona Beach, Florida, USA |
| Occupation: |
Writer, Engineer |
| Nationality: |
American |
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Biography
Walter M. Miller, Jr. grew up in the American South and enlisted in the Army Air Corps a month after Pearl Harbor. He spent most of World War II as a radio operator and tail gunner, participating in more than fifty-five combat sorties, among them the controversial destruction of the Benedictine abbey at Monte Cassino, the oldest monastery in the Western world. Fifteen years later he wrote A Canticle for Leibowitz. The sequel, Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman, followed after nearly forty years.
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