Novelist Sue Miller also has written a biography titled The Story of My Father: A Memoir. Her story focuses primarily upon her father's last years when she took care of him while he suffered from Alzheimer's disease. Her father was James Hasting Nichols, a noted church historian who taught at theological schools in Chicago and in Princeton.
As her father's disease progressed he became another person. At times he would become completely disoriented, even violent. She found that reading scripture, especially the Psalms, and singing familiar hymns helped to soothe him.
