It was a thrilling revelation, and I ended up becoming passionately interested in the intersection of the Roman world and Christianity.Īlso, TS Eliot’s The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock. I read it when I was 20, for a college course, and it completely changed the way I thought about the early days of Christianity, turning inside out much of what I’d been taught as a child. The Christians As the Romans Saw Them, by Robert Wilken. The Fountainhead was my awakening about how crucial it is to read critically. If it was written in a book, I thought, it must be true. I saw authors as thoughtful and benevolent authorities. Before this I’d always read with an open heart. I realised that I hated the book – not the writing, but the ideas behind it. But I began to feel a sort of visceral disgust – as if I were being submerged into a tub of slime. For maybe the first 50 pages, I was hooked by the story. And Ayn Rand’s doorstoppers were everywhere, so I picked one, and started reading.
At 15, I often chose books based on how thick they were – the thicker the better. But one that stands out was actually a negative experience: reading The Fountainhead. She currently lives outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.I had so many positive formative reading experiences as a teenager. Her work has been translated into over twenty-five languages including Dutch, Mandarin, Japanese, Turkish, Arabic and Greek, and her essays have appeared in a number of publications including the Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Lapham’s Quarterly and NPR.org. Her second novel, Circe, was an instant number 1 New York Times bestseller. The Song of Achilles, her first novel, was awarded the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction, was a New York Times Bestseller, and shortlisted Madeline for the 2012 Stonewall Writer of the Year. She has also studied at the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought, and in the Dramaturgy department at Yale School of Drama, where she focused on the adaptation of classical texts to modern forms.
She has taught and tutored Latin, Greek and Shakespeare to high school students for more than fifteen years. She attended Brown University, where she earned her BA and MA in Classics.
Madeline Miller was born in Boston and grew up in New York City and Philadelphia.
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