Timebends A Life [Paperback]

The definitive memoir of Arthur Miller—the famous playwright ofThe Crucible,All My Sons,Death of a Salesman,A View from the Bridge, and other plays—Timebendsreveals 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 century—he wrote twenty-two plays, various screenplays, short stories, and essays, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1949 forDeath of a Salesmanand the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1947 forAll 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.