William H. Miller (writer)

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William H. Miller is a maritime author and historian who has written numerous books dealing with the golden age of ocean liners.

Bill Miller, born in Hoboken, New Jersey on May 3, 1948, has been an ocean liner enthusiast since childhood. In addition to his teaching career and writing over 40 books and countless articles on the great liners, he was chairman of the World Ship Society's Port of New York Branch, 1970-76; deputy director of the New York Harbor Festival Foundation 1979-82; Historian at the Museum of the American Merchant Marine, 1979; creator of a course entitles "The Ocean Liner" at the New School of Social Research in Manhattan, 1981; and has been a guest lecturer aboard such liners as the Queen Elizabeth 2, Canberra, Crystal Symphony, Crystal Serenity, Norway, Sun Viking, Oriana, Sea Princess, Stefan Batory, Noordam, and Rotterdam.