Overview
Published to mark the centenary of Arthur Miller's birth, this new
edition of Conversations of Miller features a new Foreword by Richard
Eyre, former Artistic Director of the National Theatre, and an Afterword
by publisher Nick Hern, in which both reflect on their own
conversations with America's greatest playwright.
New York Times
drama critic Mel Gussow first met Arthur Miller in 1963 during
rehearsals of After the Fall, the play inspired by Miller's marriage to
Marilyn Monroe. They then met regularly over the following forty years.
Conversations
with Miller records what was discussed at more than a dozen of these
meetings. In the book, the author of Death of a Salesman, A View from
the Bridge and The Crucible is astonishingly candid about everything
from the personal to the political: his successes and disappointments in
theatre, his role as an advocate of human rights, his staunch
resistance to the United States Congressional witch hunts of the 1950s.
He also speaks forthrightly about his relationship with Monroe.
Personal,
wise and often very funny, the result is a revealing self-portrait of
one of the giants of twentieth-century literature, who was both a
'regular guy' and a fiercely original writer and thinker.