Nathan Miller, 77; Reporter, Biographer, Naval Historian

Nathan Miller, 77, a former reporter for the Baltimore Sun who was the author of more than a dozen notable books of American history and biography, has died.

Miller died Friday at a Washington, D.C., nursing home two years after suffering a stroke.

A Baltimore native, Miller served in the Navy, then studied history at the University of Maryland in the early 1950s. He joined the Sun in 1954 as a police reporter and later worked in the Sun’s Rio de Janeiro and Washington bureaus. In 1969, he became an investigator and speechwriter for U.S. Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.).

His first book, “Sea of Glory,” which chronicled the Navy’s birth, was published in 1974.

Among his other books were “The U.S. Navy: A History” (1977) and “Theodore Roosevelt: A Life” (1992). His most recent book, published last year, is “New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America.”