Davis Miller is an American author

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 notable for a series of works combining reportage and autobiography. His most famous works are The Tao of Muhammad Ali

The Tao of Muhammad Ali

The Tao of Muhammad Ali is a book by the American author Davis Miller, published in 1996. The autobiographical account is notable for its blending of fact with some elements of fiction writing to create a 'non-fiction novel.' An opening statement notes that some events have been modified for...

and The Tao of Bruce Lee, both critically acclaimed bestsellers in the United Kingdom and Japan, and the story "My Dinner with Ali," which has been judged one of the twenty best magazine stories of the 20th Century. Miller has contributed various fiction and nonfiction stories to Esquire, GQ, Men's Journal, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune Magazine, Boston Globe Magazine, and the Independent on Sunday Magazine, among many other periodicals. His stories have been anthologized in The Beholder's Eye: America's Finest Personal Journalism (Grove/Atlantic), The Best American Sports Writing of the Century (Houghton Mifflin), The Muhammad Ali Reader (Ecco Books), and The Best American Sports Writing 1994 (Houghton Mifflin). In addition, Miller has scripted films for Warner Brothers and the BBC, and has written and presented documentaries for BBC Radio 4.