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"This work is the first comprehensive, full-length work on Alice Duer Miller and her contributions to American letters and cultural history. This original research will be of practical use to researchers and scholars in the areas of American literature, American studies, film history, Broadway history, and gender studies. This book will be a comprehensive bibliography of primary and secondary works for American author Alice Duer Miller (1874-1942), celebrated author, screenwriter, and leading advocate for women's suffrage. Miller's ""Are Women People?"" is included in the Library of Congress' ""Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921"", in American Memory. Miller's stories and novels were published and/or serialized in magazines such as ""Harper's"", ""Ladies' Home Journal"", ""Saturday Evening Post"", ""Scribner's Magazine"", and ""Woman's Home Companion"". Miller wrote or had her work adapted for five Broadway plays, including ""Roberta"" (1933), with music by Jerome Kern. The play was adapted for the film ""Roberta"" (1935), starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Miller's book-length poem ""The White Cliffs"" (1940) was adapted for the film ""The White Clffs of Dover"" (1944), starring Irene Dunne. Miller wrote or had her work adapted for several dozen Hollywood films. She published forty-three books, including poetry, short stories, novels, and plays."

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Patrick Coyne's bibliography will be a great boon to the increasing number of scholars interested in Miller's work.... [it]provides us with a detailed guide to the many roads - journalism, politics, film, periodical literature, fiction, poetry - that Miller traveled in the first half of the twentieth century. - Dr. Katherine Swett The Brearley School Patrick Coyne has provided a well-researched and much needed bio-bibliography of Alice Duer Miller, an important twentieth-century American writer who has attracted a lot of critical attention in the past ten years. His exhaustive research and eye for detail make this bio-bibliography invaluable to anyone working on Miller today. - Prof. Mary Chapman University of British Columbia

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