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- She graduated from Howard University in 1920, earning an award for her one-act play Within the Shadows. Afterward she taught secondary school and continued to write.
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At age 16, Miller began studying at Howard University, where she graduated in 1920. Later, she pursued studies in poetry and drama at American University and Columbia University. For two decades, she taught English and speech at Frederick Douglass High School in Baltimore.
In 1920, May Miller graduated from Howard University at the top of her class and was collaborating with Howard University professor Alain Locke in the Howard Drama Players. Her life as a writer would excel initially as a dramatist in the silence between the notes not the limelight.
May Miller grew up on the campus of Howard University, where her father was a dean. She started her writing career as a Harlem Renaissance-era playwright, becoming one of the most published women playwrights of that period.
Jan 18, 2015 · She then continued onto Howard University where she graduated at the top of her class in 1920 (a draft of her valedictorian speech is included in the series) and won an award for her play Within the Shadow. In the subsequent years she wrote some of the most important plays of the Harlem Renaissance.
May Miller (January 26, 1899 - February 8, 1995) first came to prominence as an award-winning playwright during the Harlem Renaissance. A high school teacher, Miller was active in the famous literary salon of Georgia Douglas Johnson, and later held salons in her own hom, using Johnson's as a model.
After graduating from Dunbar in 1916, she enrolled in Howard University where she studied drama and was involved in acting and writing plays with the Howard University Dramatic Club. She graduated at the top of her class in 1920 and was awarded a prize for her play Within the Shadow.
