Artist History Davis Miller's first book, The Tao of Muhammad Ali: a fathers and sons memoir (17,000 copies, US), was published in hardcover in December 1996 by Warner Books; a second, updated edition of that book was published in October 1999 by Crown Publishing. The Tao of Muhammad Ali was published in the United Kingdom in February 1997 by Vintage/Random House (as of December 31, 2002, 52,000 plus copies sold); it reached number one on several British bestseller lists, including those of the Independent (eight weeks) and of the Observer (seven weeks), and has since become regarded as a contemporary literary classic; it is taught as part of the creative writing curriculum at several British universities. Miller wrote a radio play of The Tao of Muhammad Ali, which was broadcast in six parts in January 1998 by the British Broadcasting Corporation. The Tao of Muhammad Ali was also a bestseller in Japan (Aoyama Publishing). It was judged the Best Nonfiction Book of 1997 by book reviewers at several of Japan's largest newspapers, including Yomiuri Shimbun and Asahi Shimbun; it won the thirty-sixth annual Premio Bancarella prize for best sports book published in Italy (Limina Edizoni) in 1999. Worldwide, as of December 31, 2002, The Tao of Muhammad Ali has sold more than 110,000 copies. Miller's second book, The Tao of Bruce Lee: a martial arts memoir, about growing up in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, about his martial arts experiences, and about the ways he has been influenced by Bruce Lee, was published on August 20, 2000 in hardcover by Crown Publishing (currently 12,000 plus copies sold). Excerpts from The Tao of Bruce Lee were published in Men's Journal, the Washington Post Magazine, Esquire, Independent on Sunday (London), Arena (England), Panorama magazine (Australia), M Quarterly (Japan), the Richmond (Virginia) Times-Dispatch, and the Melbourne (Australia) Age, among others. The Tao of Bruce Lee was published by Vintage/Random House in the United Kingdom, where it sold 20,000 copies in its first month of publication and rose to number three on the Independent's bestseller list (four weeks). As of January, 2003, The Tao of Bruce Lee has sold better than 37,000 copies in Britain and continues to sell well. On July 2, 2002, the book was featured on an AMC cable network telecast of a two-hour documentary about Bruce Lee; Miller was the US national spokesperson for this airing. Miller's third book, The Zen of Muhammad Ali and Other Obsessions, was written expressly for British readers and was published by Random House UK. In January 2002, it was a number-eight bestseller in England. To date, it has sold more than 15,000 copies. Miller's feature-length fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Esquire, Rolling Stone, Gentlemen's Quarterly, Men's Journal, Sports Illustrated, and many other American magazines, as well as in Arena (England), United Kingdom editions of Esquire and Gentlemen's Quarterly, and as cover stories in magazines published by the Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Dallas Morning News, Denver Post, Detroit Free Press, Independent on Sunday (London), Louisville Courier-Journal, Melbourne (Australia) Age, Miami Herald, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and Washington Post, among numerous others; and as cover pieces in many publications worldwide, including Features sections of the Charlotte Observer, Chicago Sun-Times, Detroit News, Houston Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Louisville Courier-Journal, (New York) Newsday, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Seattle Times, Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald, Tampa Tribune, Toledo Blade, Washington Post, and many others. Miller has also written two ninety-minute documentary films, "Curse of the Dragon" (about Bruce Lee) for Warner Brothers and "Death by Misadventure" for an independent producer. The Sunday Magazine Editors Association judged Miller's first published story, "My Dinner with Ali," the best essay to have appeared in a newspaper magazine in the US in 1989. A shorter version of "My Dinner with Ali" was nominated by Sport magazine for the 1990 National Magazine Award and was the inspiration for the creation of the highly respected The Best American Sports Writing (Houghton Mifflin) yearly anthology. "My Dinner with Ali" was selected by David Halberstam as one of the best twenty pieces of sports writing of the twentieth-century and was anthologized in The Best American Sports Writing of the Century (Houghton Mifflin, 1999), in The Muhammad Ali Reader (Ecco Press, 1998) and in The Zen of Muhammad Ali and Other Obsessions (Random House UK, 2002). Houghton Mifflin published Miller's story, "The Zen of Muhammad Ali," in the 1994 edition of The Best American Sports Writing. In July 1994, he won a Creative Nonfiction Writers' Project Grant from the North Carolina Arts Council. Miller has made numerous television appearances (ABC News, Fox Cable News Network, the Financial News Network, British Broadcasting Corporation, Showtime Cable Networks, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, American Movie Classics, ESPN, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and others) and has been extensively interviewed on local, national and international radio. He is at work on several books, including Zen Cowboys and Renaissance Good Ol' Gals (a collection of fiction, nonfiction and poetry), American Kama Sutra: a love memoir, The Last Days and Nights of Bruce Lee, The Porchswing: a memoir for fathers and daughters, and a novel called So May It Secretly Begin. Miller has two children, Johanna and Isaac, and a granddaughter, Kaia. He lives near Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he was born and where many of his books and stories take place.

Location Winston-Salem, North Carolina - USA

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