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TOM MILLER has enlightened and entertained audiences at major book fairs, universities, and writers' conferences with his lively talks about his books and the many places his journeys have taken him. To arrange for Tom Miller to speak at your event, click here to inquire about available dates.
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NEWS
Trading with the Enemy, Tom’s book about Cuba (“may be the best travel book about Cuba ever written” -- Lonely Planet, Cuba) will be re-issued September 9, 2008 with an all-new introduction. The handsome new edition will be published by Basic Books.
from South America May 30, 2008, Tom Miller was honored in a ceremony in the Centro Historico of Quito, with a proclamation designating him a Huésped Ilustre de Quito (Illustrious Guest of Quito) for his literary contribution
to Ecuador, especially The Panama Hat Trail. The proclamation, a handsome 11”x16” certificate with a blood-red ribbon running down its side under the elaborate Quito city seal, was signed by the mayor. |
PUBLIC APPEARANCES
October 25, 2008 (Saturday) St. Pete Times Festival of Reading St. Petersburg, Fla. click here for details
September 19, 2008 (Friday) 11:15 a.m. REFORMA National Conference (National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-Speaking) El Paso, Texas click
here for details
June 26, 2008
(CANCELLED) Sanibel Leadership Conference Sanibel Island, Florida
May 28-29, 2008 (Wed.-Thurs.) I Conferencia Internacional sobre Moritz Thomsen Centro Cultural Benjamín Carrión Quito, Ecuador
May 23, 2008 (Friday) 5 pm Presentation of the Geotourism Map of the Baja California Peninsula National Geographic Society, Center for Sustainable Destinations Hotel Fiesta Inn La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico
March 31, 2008
(Monday) Arizona Refugee Resettlement Program Black Canyon Conference Center Phoenix, Ariz. Details: 480-893-7547
March 29, 2008
(Saturday) Virginia Festival of the Book Charlottesville, VA click here
for
details
February 16, 2008 1-5 pm
Writers Round-Up Cady Hall Patagonia, Ariz.
February 14, 2008 2:00 pm Institute for Learning in Retirement Catalina Vista Recreation Center 14055 N. Del Webb Blvd. Sun City Vistoso Oro Valley, Ariz. Open to all Sun City residents
November 20, 2007 Library/Special Collections University of Arizona Tucson, Ariz.
November 14-15,
2007 Arizona Library Association Mesa, Ariz.
November 10-11,
2007 Miami Book Fair International Miami,
Fla.
November 2-3, 2007 Vegas Valley Book Festival Las Vegas,
Nev.
October 30,
2007 7:30
pm Grosvenor Auditorium National Geographic Society Washington, D.C.
October 30,
2007 (POSTPONED) 8:30
am Treasury Executive Institute (private event) Washington, D.C.
October 11,
2007 6:30 pm English As a Second Language Success
Awards LaGrange Park, Illinois
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See Tom’s panel discuss How I Learned English
on CSPAN2’s Book-TV (click
here, then on the red WATCH oblong on upper right)
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Tom Miller has been writing about Latin America
and the American Southwest for more than thirty years, bringing us extraordinary
stories of ordinary people. His most recent title is HOW I LEARNED
ENGLISH, with contributions from some 55 accomplished Latinos whose
first language was Spanish and whose second (or third or fourth) language is
English. The book (also published in Spanish as Como aprendí inglés)
includes pieces by Hall of Fame pitcher Juan Marichal, television host
Cristina, Congressman José Serrano, and musician Paquito D’Rivera, as well as authors Elena Poniatowska, Ariel Dorfman, and Rubén Martínez. Ray Suarez of PBS has written the book’s Foreword, and Frank McCourt its Afterword. Click
for details Click
to read Tom's introduction
Miller’s highly acclaimed adventure books include The
Panama Hat Trail about South America, On the Border, an account of
his travels along the U.S.-Mexico frontier, Trading With the Enemy,
which takes readers on his journeys through Cuba, and, about the American
Southwest, Jack Ruby’s Kitchen Sink, which won the Lowell Thomas Award
for Best Travel Book in 2001. Additionally, he has edited two compilations, Travelers’
Tales Cuba, and Writing on the Edge: A Borderlands Reader.
BIO
Miller, a veteran of the underground press of the 1960s, has
appeared in Smithsonian, The New Yorker, LIFE, The New York Times, Natural
History, and many other publications. He wrote the introduction to Best Travel
Writing – 2005, and has led educational tours through Cuba
for the National Geographic Society and other organizations. His collection of
some eighty versions of “La Bamba” led to his Rhino Records release, “The Best
of La Bamba.” His book On the Border has been optioned by Productvision for a theatrical film.
Miller was born and raised in Washington, D.C., attended college in Ohio, and since 1969 has lived in Arizona 65 miles north of the Mexican border. He has appeared on NBC, NPR, CNN, HBO,
XM, and CSPAN, among other broadcast outlets, and was a major contributor to the four-volume Encyclopedia
Latina.
Well-traveled through the Americas, Miller has taught writing workshops in four countries
and his books have been published in Europe and Latin America as well as the United States. In recognition of his work the University
of Arizona Library has acquired
Miller’s archives and mounted a major exhibit of the author’s papers. He has
been affiliated with that school’s Latin American Area Center since 1990, and
makes his home in Tucson with his
wife Regla Albarrán.
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 The
Panama Hat Trail
“Among the best travel books ever written” --
National
Geographic Traveler
ENGLISH
| German
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Spanish
| French
| Dutch
Trading
With the Enemy A Yankee Travels Through Castro's Cuba
“It may just be the best travel book about Cuba ever written.”
-- Lonely Planet, Cuba
ENGLISH
| German
 On the Border
“Miller writes with wit, compassion, and truth.” --
The Lone Star Review
“Mr. Miller has drawn a lively sketch of this unruly, unpredictable place.” -- New York Times Book Review
ENGLISH | Spanish
| French
 Writing
on the Edge A Borderlands Reader
“Miller’s anthology is extraordinarily rich, complex, and unsettling.” -- Los Angeles Times
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 Jack
Ruby's Kitchen Sink
“[Miller is] a superb reporter and a slyly funny stylist.
This is a compulsively readable book by one of our best non-fiction writers.” --
San
Francisco Chronicle
ENGLISH | German
 Travelers’ Tales Cuba
“What Tom Miller has put together in Travelers’ Tales
Cuba is as ‘Inside Cuba’ as you can get.” -- Elmore Leonard, author of Cuba
Libre
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Arizona: The Land and The People
“A treasure of information – finely crafted – splendid photography – a very special book.”
-- Philadelphia Inquirer
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 The
Assassination Please Almanac
“This sourcebook/collection is the nerviest in years” -- Rolling Stone
ORDER
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