Background
Born in 1919 in Uitenhage she grew up in the northern Transvaal and spent her adult life in Johannesburg.
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Ruth Miller
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She worked as a school secretary and later English teacher. She died of cancer in 1969. She wrote short stories and plays, but is best known for her poems, which were frequently anthologised.
A second collection Selected Poems appeared in 1968 in the Phoenix Living Poets series.
After her death a selection of her published and unpublished work Poems, Prose, Plays appeared, edited by Lionel Abrahams.
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South Africa