Madeline Miller

Madeline Miller is an American novelist best known for The Song of Achilles, which retells the love story of Achilles and Patroclus against the Trojan War and won the Orange Prize for Fiction. Her second novel, Circe, is a work of mythological fiction, and she also wrote Galatea. Before her books appeared, she spent years teaching Latin and Greek, and she holds a BA and MA in Classics from Brown University.