Anita Miller received a Ph.D. in English literature from Northwestern University. Her dissertation, Arnold Bennett: An Annotated Bibliography, 1887-1932, was published in 1977. She taught at Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin. In 1976, she and her husband Jordan Miller founded Academy Press. In the early 1980s, they changed the name to Academy Chicago Publishers. In 2014, they sold the company to Chicago Review Press.
She edited numerous books including Peculiar People: The Story of My Life by Augustus Hare, The Complete Transcripts of the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill Hearings: October 11, 12, 13, 1991, and Four Classic Ghostly Tales. She also wrote several books including Uncollecting Cheever: The Family of John Cheever vs. Academy Chicago Publishers, Tea and Antipathy: An American Family in Swinging London, and Sharon: Israel's Warrior-Politician. She translated Hella S. Haasse's novel In a Dark Wood Wandering from the Dutch. In 1996, she received the Women in Publishing's Pandora Award. She died on August 4, 2018 at the age of 91.
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