William Miller

William Miller (1912-1992), author, historian, educator, and consultant to government and industry, was born in New York City in 1912, and moved to Redding, Connecticut in 1953. Among his better-known works are "A New History of the United States" (1969); The Age of Enterprise (with Thomas Cochran, 1969), and Readings in American Values (1968). He taught at Michigan State, Yale, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania and New York University. After graduating from New York University, he earned a master's degree in history there and studied further at Columbia. His first job was as a sports reporter for The Brooklyn Eagle, and later he wrote for Fortune magazine. In Redding he was a leader in efforts to retain open space as one of the five founders of the Redding Land Trust.