William H. Miller (writer)

William H. Miller is a maritime author and historian who has written numerous books dealing with the golden age of ocean liners.

William Hughes Miller was born in Hoboken, New Jersey on May 3, 1948. In addition to his teaching career and writing over 40 books and many articles on the great liners, he was chairman of the World Ship Society's Port of New York Branch from 1970 to 1976. He was deputy director of the New York Harbor Festival Foundation from 1979 to 1982.^[1] He was historian at the Museum of the American Merchant Marine in 1979 and creator of a course entitled "The Ocean Liner" at the New School of Social Research in Manhattan in 1981. He also created the passenger ship database for the Ellis Island Museum. ^[2] He appeared in the documentary SS United States: Lady in Waiting. A documentary about his life and studies, Mr. Ocean Liner, premiered aboard RMS Queen Mary 2 on July 1, 2010. ^[3]

Bibliography

Transatlantic Liners, 1945-1980 ISBN-13: 978-0668052672 (1981) The Great Luxury Liners, 1927-1954: A Photographic Record ISBN-13: 978-0486240565 (1981) The First Great Ocean Liners in Photographs: 193 Views, 1897-1927 ISBN-13: 978-0486245744 (1984) The Last Atlantic Liners ISBN-13: 978-0312469719 (1985) Transatlantic Liners at War: The Story of the Queens ISBN-13: 978-0715385111 (1985) The Fabulous Interiors of the Great Ocean Liners in Historic Photographs ISBN-13: 978-0486247564 (1985) Fifty Famous Liners 2 ISBN-13: 978-0393019476 (co-author, 1985) British Ocean Liners: A Twilight Era, 1960-85 ISBN-13: 978-0393023367 (1986) The New York Harbor Book ISBN-13: 978-0931474347 (co-author, 1986) The Last Blue Water Liners ISBN-13: 978-0312469801 (1986) Famous Ocean Liners: The Story of Passenger Shipping, from the Turn of the Century to the Present Day ISBN-13: 978-0850598766 (1987) Liner: Fifty Years of Passenger Ship Photographs ISBN-13: 978-0850597653 (1987) Great Cruise Ships and Ocean Liners from 1954 to 1986: A Photographic Survey ISBN-13: 978-0486255408 (1988) German Ocean Liners of the 20th Century ISBN-13: 978-0850598902 (1989) SS United States: The Story of America's Greatest Ocean Liner ISBN-13: 978-0393030303 (1991) Picture History of the Cunard Line, 1840-1990 ISBN-13: 978-0486265506 (co-author, 1991) Norton Lilly: 150 Years of Shipping ASIN: B0006P4WUI (1991) Modern Cruise Ships, 1965-1990: A Photographic Record ISBN-13: 978-0486267531 (1992) The Chandris Liners ISBN-13: 978-0951865620 (1993) New York Shipping ISBN-13: 978-0951865637 (1994) Pictorial Encyclopedia of Ocean Liners, 1860-1994 ISBN-13: 978-0486281377 (1995) Picture History of the French Line ISBN-13: 978-0486294438 (1997) The Liners: A Voyage of Discovery ISBN-13: 978-0760304655 (co-author, 1997) The Picture History of the Italian Line, 1932-1977 ISBN-13: 978-0486404899 (1999) Picture History of American Passenger Ships ISBN-13: 978-0486409672 (2001) Picture History of British Ocean Liners: 1900 to the Present ISBN-13: 978-0486415321 (2001) SS Independence SS Constitution ISBN-13: 978-1930098312 (2001) Picture History of German and Dutch Passenger Ships ISBN-13: 978-0486420639 (2002) Picture History of the SS United States ISBN-13: 978-0486428390 (2003) Picture History of the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth ISBN-13: 978-0486435091 (2004) The Picture History of the Andrea Doria ISBN-13: 978-0486439280 (2005) Liners of the Golden Age ISBN-13: 978-0954366629 (co-author, 2005) Great Ships in New York Harbor: 175 Historic Photographs, 1935-2005 ISBN-13: 978-0486446097 (2005) On the Waterfront: The Great Ships of Hoboken ISBN-13: 978-0976852513 (2005) Doomed Ships: Great Ocean Liner Disasters ISBN-13: 978-0486453668 (2006) SS Canberra ISBN-13: 978-0752442112 (2007) The QE2: A Picture History (2008) Under the Red Ensign: British Passenger Liners of the 50s & 60s ISBN-13: 978-0752446196 (2008) SS United States: Speed Queen of the Seas ISBN-13: 978-1848683655 (2009) SS France/Norway ISBN-13: 978-0752451398 (2009) SS Nieuw Amsterdam: The Darling of the Dutch ISBN-13: 978-1848683662 (2010) RMS Caronia: Cunard's Green Goddess ISBN-13: 978-0752442112 (co-author, 2011) Floating Palaces ISBN-13: 978-1848686984 (2011)

References

1. ^ Several stories by Bill Miller
2. ^ http://www.ellisisland.org/Eiinfo/Press_DESIGNERS.asp
3. ^ http://maritimematters.com/2010/07/mr-ocean-liner-premiere-aboard-queen-mary-2/

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