G. Wayne Miller
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G. Wayne Miller (b. June 12, 1954) is an American writer from a suburb of Boston. He graduated cum laude from Harvard in 1976 and became a reporter at The Transcript, a small daily newspaper in North Adams, Massachusetts. Then he took a staff writer position at the larger Cape Cod Times in Hyannis, and subsequently worked at The Providence Journal. In 1988, he sold his first book, a novel, Thunder Rise (hardcover, 1989; paperback, 1992), to William Morrow. In 2000 he published King of Hearts, an account of the men who created open-heart surgery focusing on Dr. C. Walton Lillehei. Miller's latest book is The Xeno Chronicles: Two Years on the Frontier of Medicine Inside Harvard's Transplant Research Lab.
[edit] Books
- The Work of Human Hands (hardcover, 1993; paperback, 1999)
- Coming of Age (1995)
- Toy Wars
- King of Hearts: The True Story of the Maverick Who Pioneered Open Heart Surgery (2000)
- Men and Speed: A Wild Ride Through NASCAR's Breakout Season
- The Xeno Chronicles: Two Years on the Frontier of Medicine Inside Harvard's Transplant Research Lab