Carol Miller

The restless Carol Miller, often called "The Renaissance Woman of Mexico", was born in Los Angeles but as one local journalist wrote, in Mexico she "forged a niche only she could fill”.

Carol Miller has been a sculptress for over fifty years with some two hundred gallery and museum exhibits, as well as auctions to her credit, “but a writer all my life”. Her career in professional journalism began at age fifteen, then took a definitive turn when she arrived in Mexico in 1954 and began contributing regularly to Howard Phillips’ “Mexican Life”, Anita Brenner’s “Mexico This Month”, as well as a number of Mexican magazines and newspapers, in Spanish. A correspondent for LIFE Magazine in Mexico (1962-65), syndicated travel writer, translator, film and art critic, magazine editor, lecturer, photographer, gastronome, she has also worked for ad agencies, public relations firms, craft centers, archaeological projects, and documentary film makers as the author of their background text. Her many books, a number of them published in both English and Spanish, have evolved out of her extensive research and travel, initially among Maya sites in Mexico and then distant, often related, cultures around the world, with a special focus on archaeology and history. Her articles on the Greek world in the Sunday Travel Section of the now-defunct Mexico City News, published during the 70’s and 80’s, earned her the title of Honorary Cultural Attaché for the Greek Embassy in Mexico, and the nickname of “Athenea”.