Madeline Miller’s debut novel is “The Song of Achilles” (Ecco), a re-telling of the story of the hero of Greek mythology. Ms. Miller attended Brown University, where she earned her BA and MA in Classics. She has also studied in the Dramaturgy department at Yale School of Drama, where she focused on the adaptation of classical texts to modern forms. For the last ten years she has been teaching and tutoring Latin, Greek and Shakespeare to high school students. Ms. Miller was born in Boston and grew up in New York City and Philadelphia. She currently lives in Cambridge, MA, where she teaches and writes.