Rebecca Miller is an Independent Spirit and Gotham Award-winning and Emmy-nominated filmmaker who has written and directed six feature films: ANGELA (1995), winner of the Sundance Film Festival Filmmakers Trophy and Cinematography Award, as well as the Gotham Award; PERSONAL VELOCITY (2002), winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Cinematography Award, as well as the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award; THE BALLAD OF JACK AND ROSE (2005); THE PRIVATE LIVES OF PIPPA LEE (2009) ; MAGGIE’S PLAN (2015); and ARTHUR MILLER: WRITER (2017) a documentary for HBO.
Miller is also the screenwriter of the feature film PROOF (2005) adapted from the stage play.
She is also a painter and author of the short story collections PERSONAL VELOCITY (2001) and TOTAL (2022) and the novels THE PRIVATE LIVES OF PIPPA LEE (2009) and JACOB’S FOLLY (2013).
Books
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Total
From Dublin to Martha’s Vineyard, from the anxious comforts of motherhood to a technologically infected near future th...
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Jacob's Folly
In eighteenth-century Paris, Jacob Cerf is a Jewish street peddler burdened by a disastrous young marriage but determine...
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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
What part of our selves do we hide away in order to have a stable, prosperous life?
Pippa Lee has just such a life in p...
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A Woman Who
A Woman Who is a delightful collection of clever, almost surreal drawings revealing women feeling all the strange and sp...
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Personal Velocity
A Washington Post Best Book of 2001, Rebecca Miller's powerful debut, Personal Velocity, is the basis for her Sundance F...
