Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller

Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller was the pen name of Mittie Miller, an American novelist. She wrote 80 dime novels during a 50-year career.  Her first novel was Rosamond, but her success began with the 1883 romance, The Bride of the Tomb. She died in 1937. In 1978, her home, "The Cedars", was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Mittie Frances Clarke Point was born in Doswell, Virginia, April 30, 1850. Her parents were Charles J. Point and Mary G. (Crow) Point.

She graduated from Richmond Female Institute on June 30, 1868.

She first married Thomas Jefferson Davis and they had a daughter, but both husband and daughter died within two years. Returning to her home in Richmond, Virginia, she wrote short stories for Old Dominion and Temperance Advocate. She then married a teacher named Alexander McVeigh Miller in 1878 and they lived in Fayette County, West Virginia. Her 1883 romance, The Bride of the Tomb, was successful, and others followed. The Millers built "The Cedars" in Alderson, West Virginia, and this also helped him with a political career, having been elected to the West Virginia Senate during the period of 1901 to 1909. She divorced him in 1908 because of infidelity, moving with her daughter Irene to Boston. She died in Florida, December 26, 1937.