<b>Bill Miles</b> (1943–2017) is an American writer and former government official and politician.  A native of Chicago, Miles lived in Anchorage, Alaska in the 1970s, where he was executive director of the Alaska State Housing Authority and served multiple terms as a Democratic member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_House_of_Representatives" class="extiw" title="w:Alaska House of Representatives">Alaska House of Representatives</a>.  He had his first novel published in 1976.  Miles returned to Chicago, where he continues to write literary works and also writes a blog about writing.
Robert M. Burnett (editor)
<i>Alaska Blue Book</i> (Third edition), Alaska Department of Education, Division of State Libraries, p. 98