Nancy Hiller (July 2, 1959 – August 29, 2022) was a cabinetmaker, period furniture maker, and author based in Bloomington, Indiana.
[4][3] She started building furniture out of necessity and for additional income while living as a young person in London in the late 1970's.
[4] Hiller has written articles for journals including Fine Woodworking, Popular Woodworking, and Huffington Post, She has authored the books English Arts and Crafts Furniture (2018), Making Things Work: Tales from a Cabinetmaker's Life (2017), Historic Preservation in Indiana: Essays from the Field (2013), A Home of Her Own (2011), and The Hoosier Cabinet in Kitchen History (2009).
[11] She describes the founding principles, the people such as William Morris and John Ruskin, and links the methods of construction to the philosophy of the movement.
This book is a series of short essays about making things from wood and about running a one-woman business in a traditionally male field.