MARGERY MILLER saw her first championship prize fight at the age of fifteen. The fight she saw was the dramatic second Louis-Schmeling bout. Since then she has avidly followed every major heavyweight fight, either from the ringside or through the newspapers and correspondence with her friends of the fistic world. She is twenty-two years old.

As a student at Wellesley College, from which she was graduated with honors last May, she spent her weekends at the ringside in Boston, where the hard-boiled fight "mob" soon accepted her as one of their own. Her friendship with the insiders of the fight world stood her in good stead in writing JOE LOUIS: AMERICAN.

Of the hundreds of fighters whose careers Miss Miller has followed, Joe Louis has always interested her above all others because he has a social as well as a sports significance. To Miss Miller, Louis is not only one of the greatest fighters of all time, but also a symbol of American democracy, which enables a lowly Negro cotton picker to attain the pinnacle of sporting.

Miss Miller was born and raised in Springfield, Vermont, ind is now working for a New York news syndicate. JOE LOUIS: AMERICAN is her first book.