It shows how to get a second chance at life the first time around.ĭon meets Steve, who wants to shoot a movie based off Blue Like Jazz, Don doesn't like them changing his life to appeal to moviegoers, Don realizes he is living a lame story, Don embarks to rectify, Don dates a girl, Don hikes a mountain, Don bikes across the country, Don matures.ĭon at no point brags and any acheivement mentioned is tempered by mention of a personal failing. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years details that journey and challenges readers to reconsider what they strive for in life. When they start fictionalizing Don’s life for film–changing a meandering memoir into a structured narrative–the real-life Don starts a journey to edit his actual life into a better story. In 2008, Don was asked to deliver the closing prayer on Monday night at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado.ĭon’s next book, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years humorously and tenderly chronicles Don’s experience with filmmakers as they edit his life for the screen, hoping to make it less boring. This book reflected an interest already present in Donald's life, as he founded the The Mentoring Project (formerly the Belmont Foundation)–a non-profit that partners with local churches to mentor fatherless young men.ĭon has teamed up with Steve Taylor and Ben Pearson to write the screenplay for Blue Like Jazz which will be filmed in Portland in the spring of 2008 and released thereafter.ĭon is the founder of The Belmont Foundation, a not-for-profit foundation which partners with working to recruit ten-thousand mentors through one-thousand churches as an answer to the crisis of fatherlessness in America.Ī sought-after speaker, Don has delivered lectures to a wide-range of audiences including the Women of Faith Conference, the Veritas Forum at Harvard University and the Veritas Forum at Cal Poly. In 2006, he added another book, To Own A Dragon, which offered Miller's reflections on growing up without a father.
In 2005 he released Through Painted Deserts the story of he and a friends road trip across the country. Searching has become required reading at numerous colleges across the country.
In 2004 Don released Searching for God Knows What a book about how the Gospel of Jesus explains the human personality. Two years later, after having audited classes at Portland’s Reed College, Don wrote Blue Like Jazz, which would slowly become a New York Times Bestseller. Harvest House Publishers released his first book, Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance, in 2000. Leaving home at the age of twenty-one, he traveled across the country until he ran out of money in Portland, Oregon, where he lives today. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.ĭonald Miller grew up in Houston, Texas.
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