Alice Duer Miller (July 28, 1874 – August 22, 1942) was an American writer whose poetry actively influenced political opinion.

Alice Duer Miller was born in Staten Island, New York, on July 28, 1874, into a wealthy and prominent family.

Alice attended Barnard College in 1895, studying Mathematics and Astronomy and graduating Phi Beta Kappa.

[6] Alice wrote her entire life, but before she was a full-time writer, she taught at a girls school English composition and tutored Barnard College students in mathematics.

[6] She published a series of satirical poems in the New York Tribune titled and later republished in the collection, Are Women People?

[6] In 1940, she wrote the verse novel The White Cliffs, about an American girl who coming to London as a tourist, meets and marries a young upper-class Englishman in the period just before World War I.

Despite the pull of her own country and the impoverished condition of the estate, she decides to stay and live the traditional life of a member of the English upper class.

The story concludes as World War II commences, and she worries that her son, like his father, will be killed fighting for the country he loves.

It was broadcast and recorded by British-American actress Lynn Fontanne (with a symphonic accompaniment), and the story was made into the 1944 film The White Cliffs of Dover.

[14] Once she graduated, she married Henry Wise Miller on October 5, 1899, at Grace Church Chapel in New York City.

[6][10] Henry and Alice had their first son Denning Duer Miller in this time period when they were moving back and forth between New York City and Costa Rica.

Alice served as the primary breadwinner for the first decade of the marriage until Henry became a Wall Street stockbroker,[6] funded by his wife's money.

Powers suggests that her long poem Forsaking All Others (1931) is a veiled reference to her own marriage: the protagonist has an affair with a younger woman, but refuses to leave his wife for her.

[18] After a long illness, Alice Duer Miller died in 1942 and was interred at Evergreen Cemetery in Morristown, New Jersey.