Born Calaveras, California, The United States Genre: Literature & Fiction Miriam Michelson (1870-1942) was an American journalist and writer. Miriam Michelson was born in the mining town of Calaveras, California, in 1870. She was the seventh of eight children of Samuel and Rosalie (née Przylubska) Michelson, who immigrated to the United States from Poland in 1855. Her oldest brother, physicist Albert A. Michelson, was the first American citizen to win a Nobel Prize for science; and the youngest, journalist Charles Michelson, became a close assistant to Franklin D. Roosevelt. She worked as a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle and later, in Philadelphia, for the North American. Less