The definitive memoir of Arthur Millerthe famous playwright of The
Crucible, All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, A View from the Bridge,
and other playsTimebends reveals Miller’s incredible trajectory as
a man and a writer. Born in 1915, Miller grew up in Harlem in the
1920s and 1930s, developed leftist political convictions during the
Great Depression, achieved moral victory against McCarthyism in the
1950s, and became president of PEN International near the end of his
life, fighting for writers’ freedom of expression. Along the way,
his prolific output established him as one of the greatest writers of
the twentieth centuryhe wrote twenty-two plays, various screenplays,
short stories, and essays, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1949 for
Death of a Salesmanand the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1947
for All My Sons. Miller also wrote the screenplay for The Misfits,
Marilyn Monroe’s final film. This memoir also reveals the incredible
host of notables that populated his life, including Marilyn Monroe,
Elia Kazan, Clark Gable, Sir Laurence Olivier, John F. Kennedy, and
Mikhail Gorbachev. Leaving behind a formidable reputation in the
worlds of theater, cinema, and politics, Arthur Miller died in 2005
but his memoir continues his legacy.
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ISBN
9780802193827
Publisert
2014
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Vendor
Grove Press UK
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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