Karl Miller

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Karl Fergus Connor Miller FRSL (born 1931) is a British literary editor, critic and writer.

He was educated at the Royal High School of Edinburgh and Downing College, Cambridge, where he studied English. He became literary editor of The Spectator and the New Statesman. Miller resigned from the latter over a disagreement with the magazine's then editor Paul Johnson, over the extent to which the literary pages treated difficult subjects and also Johnson's disapproval of The Beatles and their fans (Berry 214).

He was then editor of The Listener (1967–73) and subsequently the London Review of Books, which he founded, from 1979 to 1992. He was also Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature and head of the English Department at University College, London until 1992.

References

Neil Berry (2002) Articles of Faith: The Story of British Intellectual Journalism, The Waywiser Press, ISBN 1-904130-08-9.

Works

Poetry from Cambridge 1952-4 editor
Memoirs of a Modern Scotland, essays in honour of Hector McIver (1970), editor
Cockburn's Millennium (1975) biography of Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn, which won Miller the James Tait Black Memorial Prize
Doubles (1985) criticism
Rebecca's Vest (1994) memoir
Dark Horses (1998) memoir
Electric Shepherd: A Likeness of James Hogg (2004) biography

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 109019753 LCCN: n50033696 ISNI: 0000 0001 0859 8375 GND: 119343894 SUDOC: 028579550

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Name	Miller, Karl
Alternative names	Karl Fergus Connor Miller
Short description	British journalist
Date of birth	2 August 1931
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