Timebends: A Life

614 pp. "Telling his life story with humor and passion -- displaying throughout the largeness of spirit that has made him one of the most admired writers this country has ever produced -- Miller recalls his boyhood, his education, the formation of his political outlook, his career successes and failures, and the remarkable variety of people, both obscure and famous, in his life." 'The eminent playwright recalls his long, active, and colorful life from his birth to a newly prosperous family and Depression boyhood through his development as a writer, his marriage, and his controversial political activities."