[4][5] Miller stated that one of the purposes of Academy Chicago was to "bring back books by women that have been unfairly neglected and gone out of print."
She published Indiana, the first novel by George Sand, and The Homemaker, a 1924 novel by Dorothy Canfield Fisher that Miller called "way ahead of its time.
"[6] Miller was the winner of the Pandora Award from the London chapter of Women in Publishing in 1996.
[7] Miller was born Anita Rochelle Wolfberg in Chicago's West Side.
She received her undergraduate degree from Roosevelt University, where she met her husband Jordan Miller whom she married in 1948.