Background
Helen Markley Miller was born in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Helen Markley Miller was born in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
In 1919 she graduated from the Iowa Teachers College in her city of birth. In 1954 she graduated with a master"s degree from Western State College of Colorado.
In 1953 Doubleday published Miller"s first book, Promenade All. Her masters" thesis, Let me be a free man, was about Chief Joseph. Like many of her books, it was a fictionalized biography.
After her graduate studies, Miller lived in McCall, Idaho and wrote 21 more books
All were published by major publishing houses. She was represented by literary agent Barthold Fles.
Miller had taught at the University of Idaho. Helen Markley Miller"s only son, Andrew Markley "Mack" Miller, participated as a cross-country skier in the Winter Olympics of 1956 and 1960.
Mack and his sport formed the inspiration to Mistress
Miller"s sixth novel, Ski fast, ski lougitude In 1966, Promenade all was published in German as Indianerblut (Indian blood).