Lucasta Frances Elizabeth Miller (born 5 June 1966)[1] is an English writer and literary journalist.
Miller was educated at Westminster School and Lady Margaret Hall, in Oxford,[2] receiving a congratulatory first in English in 1988.
Known for her study in metabiography, The Bronte Myth (published by Jonathan Cape in the UK in 2001 and Knopf in the USA in 2003)[3][4][5] she has also been a contributor to the Guardian, as a profile and comment writer,[6][7][8][9][10] a reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement[11] and the Economist and was one of the judges of the Man Booker Prize in 2009.
She has been a trustee of the London Library and the Wordsworth Trust and was the founding editorial director of Notting Hill Editions.
The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Landon, the celebrated “female Byron”, was published by Knopf and Jonathan Cape in 2019: “Ms Miller ... analyzes with revelatory insight ...this infinitely rich literary biography” (The Wall Street Journal)[13] In 1992 Miller married the tenor Ian Bostridge.