He is twice winner of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize for Conditions of Faith in 2001 and for Lovesong in 2011.

[4] He worked as a ringer in Queensland and as a horse breaker in New Zealand before studying at night school to gain university entrance.

[1] The Ancestor Game was re-published by Allen & Unwin in 2016 as a celebratory edition to mark 25 years since its publication and to honour the author on his 80th birthday.

[10] The Melbourne critic Peter Craven, writing in The Australian on 14 July 2012, described Autumn Laing as "superb" and said "it is the novel that is liable to burn brightest in the whole of his oeuvre."

"[11] Robert Dixon, Professor of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney writes that Miller's "novels are by and large accessible to the general reading public yet manifestly of high literary seriousness - substantial, technically masterly and assured, intricately interconnected, and of great imaginative, intellectual and ethical weight."

Robert Dixon's Alex Miller: the ruin of time is the first of the Sydney Studies in Australian Literature series.

[14] Miller's novel Autumn Laing was inspired by his lifelong interest in art and is loosely based on the relationship between Sidney Nolan and Sunday Reed.

[16] In 2015 Alex Miller published a collection of short stories and essays drawn from forty years of writing, The Simplest Words.

Peter Pierce describes this collection as "a rich, generous compilation that enticingly refracts our perceptions of one of Australia's finest novelists.

Stephen Romei in 'The Saturday Paper', 12-18, 2024, quotes from the novel in his review: ' "Art," Lang tells Andy, "is striving after something beyond our reach.