Alex McVeigh MillerMittie Frances Clarke Point, an American novelist, wrote under the pen name Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller. Over the course of her 50-year career, she wrote 80 dime books. Rosamond was her first novel, but The Bride of the Tomb, an 1883 romance, marked thebeginning of her popularity. She died in 1937. Her "The Cedars" residence was included to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Mittie Frances Clarke Point was born in Doswell, Virginia, on April 30, 1850. Her parents were Charles J. and Mary G. (Crow) Point. She graduated from the Richmond Female Institute on June 30, 1868. She first married Thomas Jefferson Davis and had a daughter, but both he and she died within two years. She returned to Richmond, Virginia, and published short stories for Old Dominion and the Temperance Advocate. She married Alexander McVeigh Miller, a teacher, in 1878, and they lived in Fayette County, West Virginia. Her 1883 romance, The Bride of the Tomb, was a success, and many followed. The Millers built "The Cedars" in Alderson, West Virginia, which helped him with his political career, as he was elected to the West Virginia Senate from 1901 to 1909. She divorced him in 1908 due to infidelity, and moved to Boston with her daughter Irene. She died in Florida on December 26, 1937. Read More Read Less