About The Author

                      Linda Kenney Miller is a graduate of Fisk               
                       University with a B.A. in English. She taught          
                       English and Reading in the District of                   
                       Columbia Public School System, while taking          
                       graduate courses at Howard University,                 
                       where she published Realism in Black Poetry         
                       as part of a curriculum guide for public school        
                       teachers. In 1975, she entered the health care
     
                       
field, working as a medical administrator for her
father, Howard W. Kenney, M.D., and remained in the field for over
thirty years. She also started a medical management consultant
business, H.W.K. Associates, which served numerous physicians in
the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area for many years. Concerned
that the
practice of medicine was being supplanted by the
business of medicine in the 21st century, she decided to combine
her literary and medical skills to write
Beacon on the Hill, in honor
of the early black medical pioneers whose altruism and sacrifice
defined medical care in that era. Service was the mantra of the day.

Linda is currently taking leave from her medical management
consulting practice to focus on a full time writing career.
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Linda Kenney Miller
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