Caroline Miller

Caroline Miller was an American writer who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1934 for her novel Lamb in his Bosom. She was born August 26, 1903, in Waycross, Georgia, a few miles from where the Suwanee River rises. She grew up in Waycross, and moved to Baxley, Georgia in the late 1920’s. Miller never attended college. After graduating high school, she married William D. Miller, who was her English professor, and who ultimately became superintendent of schools in the Baxley area. The couple had three children – all boys - two of whom were twins.

She wrote Lamb in his Bosom while staying at home with her three young children. Upon it’s publication, the N.Y. Evening Post declared it a “first-rate candidate for the Pulitzer Prize.”

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First Edition of Lamb in his Bosom

Miller gathered much of the material for Lamb in his Bosom while she was buying chickens and eggs ten miles in the backwoods. “Almost every incident in Lamb in His Bosom actually occurred. Some of them I heard from my uncles and aunts, some from my mother. I got most of the local color from hereabouts, but the facts from family history and history of other families. I could hardly tell where fact left off and fancy began.”