Arthur Miller
His Life and Work
Martin Gottfried(Author)
Da Capo Press Inc
Published on 20. August 2003
Book
Hardback
496 pages
978-0-306-81214-9 (ISBN)
Description
The sole and definitive biography of the greatest living American playwright. Arthur Miller has been delivering powerful drama to the stage for decades with such masterpieces as Death of a Salesman . But, remarkably, no one has yet told the full story of Miller's own extraordinary life-a rich life, much of it shrouded from public view. To achieve this groundbreaking portrait of the artist and the man, the award-winning drama critic and biographer Martin Gottfried masterfully draws on his interviews with those who have known Miller throughout his personal and professional life, on Miller's voluminous lifelong correspondence, and on the annotated scripts and notebooks that reveal Miller's creative process in stunning detail. From Miller's childhood and adolescence in Depression-era New York City to his formative college years in Michiganfrom the numerous early professional rejections to t he 1947 play All My Sons that established him as a voice to be reckoned withfrom his heroic defiance of the House Un-American Activities Committee during the McCarthy years to his most unlikely pairing with Marilyn Monroe from political and social activism on the world stage to an extraordinary prof
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Edition
Annotated edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Hachette Books
Edition type
Annotated edition
Illustrations
ports.
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 44 mm
Weight
853 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-306-81214-9 (9780306812149)
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