“Miller was not the first to dramatise the barbarity of American individualism, but he was the first to stage this spiritual attrition as a journey to the interior of the American psyche”
A new biography by John Lahr in Yale's Jewish Lives Series tracks the successes (and many failures) of a beloved American writer whose tragic characters were inspired by his life
Born to a deeply troubled mother who spent most of her time in and out of mental institutions, Monroe embarked on a lifelong quest to confirm the true identity of a father she never met.