![]() In September 1980 I wrote to sound him out. I was full of respect for him, and curiosity as well. Though his normal, commonsensical, intellectual life rarely made headlines, in the late 1950’s he had been married to Marilyn Monroe, a conjunction that made heads spin at the time and now seemed the stuff of myth. His plays were a staple of the American theater repertory, and he’d also written classic film-scripts of his own work. His opposition to the infamous House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in the 1950’s had earned him lasting political prestige. ![]() As I began to consider a new subject, my biographer’s antennae quivered at the thought of Arthur Miller. ![]() In the 1970’s I wrote two literary biographies, one on Katherine Mansfield, a short-story writer from New Zealand who died early at the peak of her career the other on Wyndham Lewis, an original novelist, great painter and incurable outsider who died blind and neglected in 1957.
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