Walter M. Miller, Jr.

Little is known about Walter Miller. His personal life is a mystery to the public; we know he lived and he died. In between he won a Hugo (Science Fiction award) award in 1951 for a novelette and in 1961 for a novel. He converted to Catholicism when he was twenty-five and was working on a sequel to his best known work when he died.

A Canticle for Leibowitz is almost universally recognized as a science fiction classic and is greatly developed beyond his original short story of the same name that became the skeleton of the first part of the famous novel. The sequel, Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman, finished by another writer, is not nearly the quality of the original story.