Miller, Lily Poritz

Lily Poritz Miller was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and came to the United States with her family when she was fifteen. She began her career in publishing with Macmillan and later McGraw-Hill in New York, then moved to Toronto, where she was senior editor at McClelland and Stewart for eighteen years.

She has written three plays, which were performed in New York and Toronto, and received a Samuel French national award for her play "The Proud One". Her short stories were published in the anthology "American Scene: New Voices". She has also written for film. She presently divides her time