Russell Miller (born  1938) is a British journalist and author of fifteen books, including biographies of Hugh Hefner, J. Paul Getty and L. Ron Hubbard.

While under contract to The Sunday Times Magazine he won four press awards and was voted Writer of the Year by the Society of British Magazine Editors. His book Magnum: Fifty Years at the Front Line of History: The Story of the Legendary Photo Agency (1999) on Magnum Photos, was described by John Simpson as "the best book on photo-journalism I have ever read".

Life and work

Miller was born in east London and began his career in journalism at the age of sixteen. Senior executives at publishers Michael Joseph, and at The Sunday Times, which serialised the book, received threatening phone calls and also a visit from private investigator Eugene Ingram, who worked for the Church. Another private investigator, Jarl Grieve Einar Cynewulf, told The Sunday Times journalists that he had been offered "large sums of money" to find a link between Miller and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Bibliography

  • The Resistance (1979)
  • The East Indiamen (1980)
  • The Commandos (1981)
  • Continents in Collision (1983)
  • The Soviet Air Force (1983)
  • Bunny (1984), a biography of Hugh Hefner.
  • The House of Getty (1985), a biography of J. Paul Getty.
  • Bare-faced Messiah (1987), a biography of L. Ron Hubbard.
  • Body and Soul: How to Succeed in Business and Change the World, with Anita Roddick (1992)
  • Nothing Less Than Victory: An Oral History of D-Day (1993)
  • Ten Days in May: The People's Story of VE Day (1995)
  • Magnum: Fifty Years at the Front Line of History: The Story of the Legendary Photo Agency (1999)
  • Behind The Lines: The Oral History of Special Operations in World War II (2002)
  • Codename Tricycle: The True Story of the Second World War's most extraordinary Double Agent (2004), a biography of Dušan Popov.
  • The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle: A Biography (2008)
  • Uncle Bill: the Authorised Biography of Field Marshal Sir William Slim of Burma (2013)
  • Boom: The Life of Viscount Trenchard, Father of the Royal Air Force (2016)

Awards

  • Colour Magazine Writer of the Year, British Press Awards 1990
  • Four Press Awards, The Sunday Times Magazine
  • Writer of the Year, British Society of Magazine Editors