2 Quotes & Sayings By Merle Miller
Merle Miller was born in Winona, Mississippi, and raised in Meridian, Mississippi. He earned his B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received the Sigma Pi Phi College Writer's Award. Following graduate work at Columbia University, Miller served as an officer in the U.S
Navy during World War II. He married Clara Reeve in 1948, and they had three children: George, Joanna and Merle Jr. Miller began his career as a newspaper reporter, then became editor of the weekly Meridian Star News before joining the staff of The Chicago Daily News as managing editor.
His journalism career spanned more than fifty years.