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Disconcerting Wipeout

How marrying Marilyn Monroe ruined Arthur Miller’s genius
By Adam Kirsch | 7:00 AM Oct 6, 2009

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Arthur Miller could hardly have hoped for a more sympathetic biographer than Christopher Bigsby. He is the director of the Arthur Miller Centre for American Studies at the University of East Anglia, and the author of a long commentary on Miller’s work and a book-length interview with the playwright. To write this biography, Miller granted ...