Millen Brand

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Millen Brand (January 19, 1906 – March 19, 1980) was a bestselling American writer and poet. His novels Savage Sleep and The Outward Room were bestsellers in the 1940s.

Millen fled Pennsylvania Dutch Country early in his life, but returned to the topic late in life, writing the text to accompany George Tice's[1] photographs for Fields of Peace: A Pennsylvania German Album, and Local Lives (1975), a book of poems about the Pennsylvania Dutch. He also taught writing at New York University.

He was nominated for an Oscar for Best Writing (Screenplay) in 1948 for The Snake Pit (with Frank Partos), an adaptation of Mary Jane Ward's novel.

Millen was active in the civil rights movement. He was forced to testify before Senator Joseph McCarthy. He also authored Peace March: Nagasaki to Hiroshima. Buried in Concord, Massachusetts, his gravestone is just a few steps from those of Emerson and Thoreau.