Miller, Caroline (1903–1992)

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Miller, Caroline (1903–1992)

American novelist. Born Aug 26, 1903, in Waycross, Georgia; died July 12, 1992, in North Carolina; dau. of Elias Pafford (schoolteacher and Methodist minister) and Levy Zan Hall Pafford; m. William D. Miller (her high school English teacher), 1921 (div. 1936); m. Clyde H. Ray Jr. (1937); children: (1st m.) William Dews Miller Jr. (b. 1927); twins George and Harvey Miller (b. 1929); (2nd m.) Clyde H. Ray III and Caroline Patience Ray.

Southern novelist won Pulitzer Prize for bestselling book, Lamb in His Bosom! (1934), a work of historical realism about pioneer life in the Wiregrass region of Georgia; uncomfortable with her newfound celebrity, continued to write but did not publish often, except for the novel Lebanon (1944).

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