Born June 6, 1926 in Welland, Ontario, Canada, Paul Miller is Professor Emeritus of English at Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio where he taught from 1961 to 1991. Before that he taught at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (1955-58) and at King College, Bristol, Tennessee (1958-1961). A native of Canada, he was graduated from Welland High School, Welland, Ontario, in 1943, and received the BA in English and French from McMaster University in 1947. In 1948 he received the MA in English from Brown University and in 1955 the PhD in English Literature and Language from the University of Michigan. On June 19, 1956 he became a naturalized U.S. citizen in Madison, Wisconsin.
His training and early scholarship focused on English literature of the Renaissance, including the minor Elizabethan epic, Shakespearean drama, and topographical comedy of the seventeenth century. In this period he edited Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1967) and The Plays of William Mountfort (1977), both published by Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints. More recently he has published on such American authors as Brand Whitlock, James Purdy, Sherwood Anderson and Ernest Hemingway. He edited Brand Whitlock's previously unpublished novel The Buckeyes: A Story of Politics and Abolitionism in an Ohio Town (1977) and edited a new edition of Whitlock's J. Hardin & Son (1982), both published by Ohio University Press. He studied in Canada on a Canadian Embassy Grant in 1979-80, and at Brown University on a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant in 1981-82.
In the last two decades, and especially since his retirement in 1991, Miller has presented papers at conferences and published articles in such journals as Canadian Literature, The American Review of Canadian Studies, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, MidAmerica, The Sherwood Anderson Review, and The Hemingway Review. In 1996, following a 1992 teaching assignment at Kyushu Jo Gakuin College in Kumamoto, Japan, he edited Martin Kawano's The Cloud and the Light: Memoirs of a Japanese Christian Surgeon from Nagasaki, published by Cross Cultural Publications. Miller has also served on the Editorial Board and written entries for the Dictionary of Midwestern Literature: The Authors, just published by Indiana University Press. This volume is the first of three volumes projected by the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, East Lansing, Michigan.
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