Jeffrey Miller

I’ve been a Denver-based freelance writer, magazine editor, and book author for more than 45 years. I’ve started six magazines (city, regional, national), spent 13 years as a freelance travel writer, was editor in chief of five inflights, and was director of communications at AAA Colorado for five years, supervising its magazine, website, public relations, public affairs and traffic safety. 

I wrote Stapleton International Airport: The First Fifty Years (Pruett Publishing, 1982), which was the first history of a major U.S. airport, and co-authored with Dr. Gordon Ehlers Facing Your Fifties: Every Man’s Reference to Mid-life Health (M. Evans & Co., 2002), which was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2002.

In 2012, I began full-time researching and writing about WWI’s Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB), which became the largest food relief program the world had ever seen. The CRB, along with it’s Belgian counterpart, the Comite National (CN), saved from starvation nearly 10 million civilans trapped behind German lines during the four years of World War I. The program spent nearly $1 billion in WWI dollars ($24 billion in 2021), and helped change the way the world saw America and how America saw itself on the global stage. 

My first book on the topic, Behind the Lines, was self-published (Milbrown Press, October 2014; 482 pages) and became a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the 2014. The starred review stated: “An excellent history that should catapult Miller to the top tier of popular historians.” (I’m still waiting for the catapult! 🙂 It also was a finalist in numerous state and national contests and was (surprisingly) declared the 2021 Best Self-published Book by the Eric Hoffer Book Awards.

My second book, WWI Crusaders, was also self-published (Milbrown Press, October 2018, 761 pages) and became one of only 100 self-published books to be included in Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2018. The starred review stated “A tour-de-force history. . . gripping historical narrative. A magnum opus that celebrates the qualities of compassion, homor and humanitarian virtue.” It was an 11-time finalist in 8 contests (5 national, 2 Colorado) and an award winner in 4 (2 national, 2 Colorado). 

My third book, Yanks behind the Lines, was published by international publisher Rowman & Littlefield (October 2021, 300 pages) and was a Publishers Weekly Editor’s Pick for 2021, a Colorado Humanities 2021 Colorado Book Award winner in history, and an 9-time finalist in 7 contests (5 national, 2 Colorado). Kirkus Reviews declared, “This is a powerful work of history, as informative as it is dramatically gripping. An impresive blend of painstaking historical scholarship and riveting storytelling.”

 I’m currently working on a new non-fiction book in the writing style of Erik Larson about a WWI underground newspaper. The book is tentatively titled Deadly News.