Clarence H. Miller

Clarence H. Miller (August 4, 1930 – June 21, 2019) born in Kansas City, Missouri was an American professor emeritus of English at Saint Louis University.

He is best known for major contributions to the study of Renaissance literature, and creating the classic translations from Latin of Saint Thomas More's 1516 book Utopia, and Erasmus's 1509 The Praise of Folly.

Miller was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and attended Rockhurst, the Jesuit high school there.

He was a Fulbright Professor at the University of Würzburg in 1960–1961, and he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1966.

From 1976–1977 he was Visiting Professor at the Ruhr University (Bochum, West Germany), and from 1979-1984 Visiting Professor at Yale University, where he also served as Executive Editor of the Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More (his tenure as editor extending beyond his tenure as Visiting Professor, to 1998).