[4] At age 11, Mikol wrote a four-act play, The Distinguished Princess, which was produced at her school.

[16][17][18] In 1931 she was in Naples, studying piano and possibly working for the United States Foreign Service.

[20] Mikol was the uncredited research director on dozens of Hollywood films in 1945 and 1946,[21] many of them westerns, thrillers, or comedies.

In the 1950s, she presented her research on composer Sigismund Thalberg at a meeting of the American Philosophical Society.

[24][25] Later in life she lived in Palm Springs, and was active in the Opera Guild[26] and the Coachella Valley chapter of the Dickens Fellowship.

The Harvard Radcliffe Institute awards a Vera M. Schuyler Fellowship, named in her memory; novelist Geraldine Brooks, novelist Mako Yoshikawa, historian Steven Zipperstein, anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes, and mathematician Montserrat Teixidor i Bigas are among its past recipients.