Alex. McVeigh Miller

Alex. McVeigh Miller was the pen name of Mittie Frances Clarke Point (1850–1937), born in Doswell, Virginia, and educated at the Richmond Female Institute. Widowed young — her first husband and their infant daughter died within two years of the marriage — she remarried in 1878, taking her byline from her second husband, West Virginia schoolteacher Alexander McVeigh Miller, and began writing to help support the household. She became one of the best-paid dime novelists of her day, publishing roughly eighty romances for Street & Smith between 1881 and 1915, including The Bride of the Tomb (1883) and Dainty's Cruel Rivals (1898). She divorced Miller in 1908 and later settled in Florida, where she died at eighty-seven.