Book description
Quentin is a successful lawyer in New York, but inside his head he is
struggling with his own sense of guilt and the shadows of his past
relationships. One of these an ill-fated marriage to the charming and
beautiful Maggie, who went from operating a switchboard to become a
self-destructive star - a singer everyone wanted a piece of.
After the Fall is often seen as the most explicitly
autobiographical of Arthur Miller's plays, and Maggie as an
unflinching portrait of Miller's ex-wife Marilyn Monroe, only two
years after her suicide. But in its psychological acuity and depth,
and its brilliant, dreamlike structure, it is a literary, and not just
biographical, masterpiece.
American dramatist Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915.
In 1938 Miller won awards for his comedy
The Grass Still Grows
. His major achievement was
Death of a Salesman
, which won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for drama and the 1949 New York
Drama Critics' Circle Award.
The Crucible
was aimed at the widespread congressional investigation of subversive
activities in the US; the drama won the 1953 Tony Award. Miller's
autobiography,
Timebends: A Life
was published in 1987.
