Commonweal, April 5th, 1996
A man describes his association with Miller, who wrote a bestseller in 1959 about a post-nuclear holocaust and the Catholic Church. Miller committed suicide in Jan 1996. Walt Miller shot himself in January. His suicide followed by several months the death of his wife Anne. Many readers of Commonweal will know him as Walter M. Miller, Jr., author of A Canticle for Leibowitz, a fine, compassionate, and angry novel praised by C. S. Lewis, Walker Percy, and many others. If the movement against nuclear warfare could be said to have an anthemic novel, this might be it, but the novel was much more t...
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