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Arthur Miller (1915-2005)

Arthur Miller (1915-2005) was born in New York City and studied at the University of Michigan. He has twice won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and in 1949 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

Echoes Down the Corridor

For some fifty years now, Arthur Miller has been not only America's premier playwright, but also one of our foremost public intellectuals and cultural critics. Echoes Down the Corridor gathers together a dazzling array of more than forty previously uncollected essays and works of reportage, from Belief in America (1944), which recounts Arthur Miller's experiences during the Second World War, to The Crucible in History, his 1999 Massey lecture at Harvard, published here for the first time. Spanning the second half of the twentieth century, Echoes Down the Corridor takes us on a whirlwind tour of modern history, as Arthur Miller captures the frenzied spirit of our schizophrenic age: the Holocaust and the Nazi war crimes trials; the depredations of McCarthyism and The Night Ed Murrow Struck Back; Vietnam and a firsthand report on the 1968 Battle of Chicago; Watergate and the failed Nixon presidency.
Here is Arthur Miller, the brilliant social and political commentator, but here, too, Miller the literary critic (on Mark Twain, Ibsen, and Tennessee Williams); the Swiftian satirist (Let's Privatize Congress); the world traveler (with his wife, Inge Morath, at the Opera House in Tashkent, with Harold Pinter in Turkey, Nelson Mandela in South Africa, and Lucky Luciano in Sicily). Giving a rare glimpse of the private man behind the internationally renowned public figure, Arthur Miller's personal essays paint a fascinating portrait of the artist through poignant reminiscence and evocative memoirs, of a Brooklyn boyhood during the Depression, of his formative years as a young playwright, of an incredible lifetime in and out of the theater.
Witty and wise, rich in artistry and insight, Echoes Down the Corridor reaffirms Arthur Miller's standing as one of the greatest writers of our time.
Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays, 1944-1999 by Arthur Miller
ISBN: 1402879792

Death of a Salesman

Willy Loman, the protagonist of Death of a Salesman, has spent his life following the American way, living out his belief in salesmanship as a way to reinvent himself. But somehow the riches and respect he covets have eluded him. At age 63, Willy Loman searches for the moment his life took a wrong turn, the moment of betrayal that undermined his relationship with his wife and destroyed his relationship with Biff, the son in whom he invested his faith. Willy Loman lives in a fragile world of elaborate excuses and daydreams, conflating past and present in a desperate attempt to make sense of himself and of a world that once promised so much.
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
ISBN: 0141180978