During Miller's lifetime, and largely due to his efforts, Puritan studies emerged from the domain of a gentlemanly pastime to become one of the most sophisticated areas of American historiography, and since his death Miller's work has continued to serve as a model and a challenge to historians and literary scholars alike.
Miller's preparation for his scholarly work was erratic, even for the chaotic years between the wars. He was born on the West Side of Chicago to Eben Perry Sturgis and Gertrude Eddy Miller. Perry and his brother Charles, who later became a professor of English at the University of Iowa, grew up in Chicago and attended the Tilton School and later went to Austin High School.
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