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Harry Miller

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I have traveled extensively in Asia and am now settled in Mobile, Alabama, where I teach history. I have published three books on Chinese history, including a translated classic. My first novel, Southern Rain, is set in seventeenth-century China. I also wrote Meet Me at the RASCAL, an experimental novella.

If You Don’t Want to Read My Books, Just Tell Me

No one is dying to read my books, though a few have died to avoid reading them. I sent Jonathan Spence an advance copy of my first novel, in the hope that he would contribute a cover blurb, but I didn’t hear back from him, and I learned later that he was ill. Soon he died. 

I asked John Barth to blurb my second novel, so he died.

My high school English teacher was someone who I was sure would devour

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Published on January 16, 2026 07:17
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Southern Rain: A Novel of S...

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