Donald Miller(VIII)
- Writer
- Actor
Donald Miller was born in Houston, Texas. When he was twenty-one he
traveled across America with a friend in a Volkswagen van. They ran out
of money in the Pacific Northwest where they lived in the woods, in the
Cascade Mountains of central Oregon.
Always fascinated by stories, Don wrote about this journey in a travel memoir called Through Painted Deserts. He would later go on to work in the publishing industry, bringing other people's stories into the world. When he started his own company, he was once again without money and so wrote another book called Blue Like Jazz, which, more than two years after its release, would arrive on the New York Times Bestsellers List where it spent more than 40 weeks.
While writing a book about fatherlessness, Don started a mentoring program in Portland that hopes to mentor more than a million fatherless kids across America. That initiative led Barack Obama to invite Don onto the Presidential Task Force on Fatherhood and Healthy Families.
Don's most recent book is called A Million Miles in a Thousand Years and it's about how the elements of a great story can help us understand the elements of a great life. That book also hit the New York Times Bestsellers List, and inspired corporations to work with Don to improve employee engagement in their corporate vision, and customer understanding of the corporations overall narrative.
Don has appeared on a diversity of television programs including NPR's Tavis Smiley and Fox News' The Strategy Room and has spoken for a variety of venues including the Veritas Forum at Harvard and national corporate conferences for brands such as Chic-fil-a.
Don lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee.
Always fascinated by stories, Don wrote about this journey in a travel memoir called Through Painted Deserts. He would later go on to work in the publishing industry, bringing other people's stories into the world. When he started his own company, he was once again without money and so wrote another book called Blue Like Jazz, which, more than two years after its release, would arrive on the New York Times Bestsellers List where it spent more than 40 weeks.
While writing a book about fatherlessness, Don started a mentoring program in Portland that hopes to mentor more than a million fatherless kids across America. That initiative led Barack Obama to invite Don onto the Presidential Task Force on Fatherhood and Healthy Families.
Don's most recent book is called A Million Miles in a Thousand Years and it's about how the elements of a great story can help us understand the elements of a great life. That book also hit the New York Times Bestsellers List, and inspired corporations to work with Don to improve employee engagement in their corporate vision, and customer understanding of the corporations overall narrative.
Don has appeared on a diversity of television programs including NPR's Tavis Smiley and Fox News' The Strategy Room and has spoken for a variety of venues including the Veritas Forum at Harvard and national corporate conferences for brands such as Chic-fil-a.
Don lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee.
