![]() ![]() ‘No one writes about playwrights and the theater the way John Lahr does. ‘In this succinct and gorgeously written portrait, the former New Yorker critic and award-winning biographer of Tennessee Williams offers a keen psychological appraisal of Miller’s work, and Miller himself.’ ‘New Yorker critic John Lahr shines in this searching account of the playwright Arthur Miller….It’s a great introduction to a giant of American letters.’ He is an investigative reporter, a profiler of personality, mind and character, and a critic who understands drama on the page and in the house.’ ![]() He does what a good literary biographer must do: He does not reduce the work to the life, but shows how it explains the life from which it emerges. ‘John Lahr treats his subject with clarity and charity. His cogent analyses are revelatory but not surgical, and his sympathy never cloys. ![]()
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