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Merle Dale Miller〔http://dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu/DI/1941/di1941-05-03.pdf〕 (May 17, 1919 – June 10, 1986) was an American writer, novelist, and best-selling author who came out of the closet in an article in the ''New York Times Magazine'' on January 17, 1971, titled "What It Means to Be a Homosexual". Due to the response of over 2,000 letters to the article (more than ever received by that newspaper) the article, with additional material was published later that year as a book. Miller became a spokesman for the gay rights movement. The article was again published as a book by Penguin Classics in 2012, with a new foreword by Dan Savage and a new afterword by Charles Kaiser.〔Victor S. Navasky Interview: Conversations with History: Institute of International Studies, USC Berkeley. 2005. Page 4.〕 ==Life and career== Merle Miller was born in Montour, Iowa and raised in Marshalltown, Iowa, attending the University of Iowa and the London School of Economics. Before World War II, he was a Washington correspondent for the late Philadelphia Record. During the war, Miller served both in the Pacific and in Europe as a war correspondent and editor for Yank, The Army Weekly. Following his discharge from the Army, he was editor of both Harper's and Time magazines. He also worked as a book reviewer for The Saturday Review of Literature and as a contributing editor for The Nation. His work appeared frequently in the New York Times Magazine. During the course of a writing career that spanned several decades, Miller wrote numerous novels, including the best-selling classic post war novel, ''That Winter'' (1948). His other novels are ''Island 49'' (1945); ''The Sure Thing'' (1949); ''Reunion'' (1954); ''A Day in Late September'' (1956); ''A Secret Understanding'' (1961); ''A Gay and Melancholy Sound'' (1962); and ''What Happened'' (1972). He also wrote a novel titled ''The Warm Feeling'', but due to the fact that the publisher did not give him the opportunity to read and edit the manuscript, he publicly disowned the novel and would not have anything to do with it.〔Merle Miller Disowns His New Novel by Harry Gilroy. The New York Times. March 27, 1968.〕 His works of non-fiction include ''We Dropped the A-Bomb'' (1946), a book he wrote in collaboration with Abe Spitzer, a radioman who was on the bomber, The Great Artiste, one of the three B-29s that dropped the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; ''The Judges and The Judged'' (1952); ''Only You Dick Daring'' (1964), Miller's scathing account of trying to make a show with CBS for the 1963-1964 television season; and ''On Being Different. What It Means To Be a Homosexual'' (1971). Miller was a contributor of A Treasury of Great Reporting; The Best of Yank; and Yank: The GI Story of the War. In 1967 he signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest,” vowing to refuse to pay taxes raised to fund the Vietnam War. Miller wrote many television plays and was the author of the screenplays, "The Rains of Ranchiphur" (1955), which starred Richard Burton and Lana Turner, and "Kings Go Forth," (1958), featuring Frank Sinatra and Natalie Wood. He wrote several drafts of a screenplay for "A Walk on the Wild Side," but by the time the screen version was being shot it was so far removed from what he had written or had in mind that he refused any screen credit.〔Merle Miller’s journals and other writings. 1936 to 1986. The Estate of Merle Miller. Carol V. Hanley, Executrix.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Merle Miller」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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