Caroline Miller, best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Lamb in His Bosom (1933), wrote in the historical realist mode used by many Southern writers during the renaissance of Southern literature between the world wars. Like three other Southern regionalists--Elizabeth Madox Roberts, to whom she is often compared, T. S. Stribling, and Caroline Gordon--Miller attempts a literal recreation of the past, rather than picturesque romance. The vehicle for this recreation is regional and family history, and fact and imagination are so closely intertwined in Miller's fiction that she observes of Lamb in His Bosom: "I could hardly tell where fact left off and fantasy began."

Caroline Miller was born in Waycross, Georgia, the daughter of Elias and Levy Zan Pafford. Her great-grandfather had come to Waycross during the frontier period as a New Light minister, and he, according to Miller, is the model for two of her central characters...