Arthur Miller
Published on 16. October 2003
Book
Hardback
496 pages
978-0-571-21946-9 (ISBN)
Description
Arthur Miller's life spans more than four decades and includes three marriages - famously to America's enduring icon, Marilyn Monroe - numerous plays, novels and an autobiography. Martin Gottfried utilizes private letters from and to Arthur Miller where Miller discusses everything from movie deals to house decoration, from his psychoanalysis to his portrayal of Monroe in his play "After the Fall". Using these materials as well as interviews with those who know Miller, Gottfried crafts the complete life and work of this major writer.
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Martin Gottfried, a New York drama critic for forty years and the author of five biographies and two books of theatre criticism, is uniquely qualified to write about Arthur Miller s life and work.Winner of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism and recipient of two Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships, Martin Gottfried has been chief dramatic critic for the New York Post and Saturday Review. He is the author of A Theater Divided, Jed Harris: The Curse of Genius, All His Jazz: The Life and Death of Bob Fosse, Balancing Act: The Authorized Biography of Angela Lansbury and Nobody s Fool: The Lives of Danny Kaye. He lives in New York City.