Conversations with Miller

Now in paperback: forty years of candid conversations with the world-famous playwright - including many previously unpublished exchanges; Arthur Miller can claim to be the world's best-known living playwright, chiefly on account of two masterpieces - Death of a Salesman and The Crucible - and his marriage to Marilyn Monroe...He also has an admirable history of political activism, which includes a staunch resistance to the witch-hunts of the Committee on Un-American Activities. Eighty-eight this year, he is still writing - and talking...Mel Gussow first met Miller in 1963 on day one of rehearsals for After the Fall, Miller's play about Marilyn. They then met regularly over the following decades, most recently 18 months ago. This book records over a dozen of these conversations, charting Miller's development over the past forty years as well as plunging back into his earlier life and work. From the personal to the political, Miller is astonishingly candid throughout - even about his relationship with Monroe. The result is a self-portrait of a giant of the theatre who is both a 'regular guy' and a fiercely original writer and thinker...