Rebecca Miller

Rebecca Miller

Photo Credit: Ronan Day-Lewis

Rebecca Miller worked as a painter and actress before becoming a writer and director. She is the author of the short story collection Personal Velocity, her feature film adaptation of which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. She is also the writer-director of Angela, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, and most recently, the novel and film The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, which was selected for Richard and Judy’s summer reading club. Jacob’s Folly is her most recent novel and Maggie’s Plan her latest film.



I, the being in question, having spent nearly three hundred years lost as a pomegranate pip in a lake of aspic, amnesiac, bodiless and comatose, a nugget of spirit but nothing else, found myself quickening, gaining form and weight and, finally, consciousness

Jacob's Folly

Rebecca Miller