E. Morris Miller
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Edmund Morris Miller, CBE (1881 – 1964) was an Australian author.
Born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal, Miller moved with his family to Melbourne in 1883. He was educated at University High School and Wesley College. In 1900 he began working at the Public Library of Victoria. He enrolled at the University of Melbourne obtaining a B.A. and in 1907 a M.A. with 1st class honours in philosophy.
He, along with F. J. Broomfield, Sir John Quick and others wrote Australian Literature from its Beginnings (two volumes, 1940). Authors he described include Carlton Dawe, Simpson Newland, John Henry Nicholson and Hume Nisbet.
He also wrote Pressmen and Governors: Australian Editors and Writers in Early Tasmania (1952).
He was awarded the gold medal of the Australian Literature Society and elected a fellow of the British Psychological Society (1943) and of the International Institute of Arts and Letters. The main library at the University of Tasmania is named after Morris Miller.
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- Michael Roe, John Reynolds, Miller, Edmund Morris (1881 - 1964)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 10, MUP, 1986, pp 507-509.
