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Madeline Miller

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Madeline Miller is an American novelist and teacher, born in Boston on 24 July 1978, who writes in English.

Miller was educated at Brown University, the University of Chicago, and the Yale School of Drama, a sequence of institutions that took her across disciplines including literature and dramatic art. Alongside her work as a novelist, she has held occupations as a teacher and docent. These parallel roles have run alongside her writing throughout her career.

Miller is the author of two novels, The Song of Achilles and Circe. For her work, she has received the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Athenaeum Literary Award. Both prizes represent formal recognition from literary institutions, and both contribute to her standing as a novelist working in the English language.

Her two novels — The Song of Achilles and Circe — constitute the body of fiction for which she has received that recognition. Writing in English and holding citizenship in the United States, Miller has built a literary practice that runs alongside her sustained work in teaching and as a docent.

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She brought the whole urgent universe wherever she went, portents and angry deities and a thousand looming perils.
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She brought the whole urgent universe wherever she went, portents and angry deities and a thousand looming perils.
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He had no chance, really. He was only flesh.
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He had no chance, really. He was only flesh.
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I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me. If I had had words to speak such a thing, I would have. But there were none that seemed big enough for it, to hold that swelling truth.
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I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me. If I had had words to speak such a thing, I would have. But there were none that seemed big enough for it, to hold that swelling truth.
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The spiral shell. Always another curve out of sight.
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The spiral shell. Always another curve out of sight.
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How many of us would be granted pardon if our true hearts were known?
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How many of us would be granted pardon if our true hearts were known?
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You can,” I said. “But you have always been cautious, Father. You know I have stood against Athena. I have walked in the blackest deeps. You cannot guess what spells I have cast, what poisons I have gathered to protect myself against you, how your power may rebound upon your head. Who knows what is in me? Will you find out?
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You can,” I said. “But you have always been cautious, Father. You know I have stood against Athena. I have walked in the blackest deeps. You cannot guess what spells I have cast, what poisons I have gathered to protect myself against you, how your power may rebound upon your head. Who knows what is in me? Will you find out?
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He paused now, considering. I loved this about him. No matter how many times I had asked, he answered me as if it were the first time.
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He paused now, considering. I loved this about him. No matter how many times I had asked, he answered me as if it were the first time.
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He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else’s friend and brother. So which life is more important?
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He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else’s friend and brother. So which life is more important?
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I wish he had let you all die.
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I wish he had let you all die.
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Aristos Achaion.” Best of the Greeks.
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Aristos Achaion.” Best of the Greeks.
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