I read his memoir,
Timebends, where he says that I maintain that Kazan wrote his plays.
In 1986 Arthur Miller published his autobiography "
Timebends." It is a straightforward and rational account of his life, except for the pages devoted to his marriage with Monroe.
However, the very ordinariness of the setting and lighting makes "the deepening threat of the remainder more frightening" (Miller,
Timebends 134), for Larry who has been missing in action for nearly four years has not yet fossilized into a mournful memorial in the mind of his mother, Kate.
Miller A (1987)
Timebends. New York: Harper & Row.
Even after the play was a decided triumph, the playwright still applied at the New York State Employment Service to take "any job" that was available and was subsequently sent out to a factory in Long Island City to "stand all day assembling beer box dividers for the minimum wage" (
Timebends 138).
Arthur Miller's
Timebends. It is an astonishing autobiography, a great writer coming to terms with the considerable achievements of his life and the extraordinary times he lived through.
Her affection for Brooklyn may have come through her relationship with playwright Arthur Miller, who spent years living in the borough and wrote fondly about it in his 1987 autobiography,
Timebends.
'
Timebends': The real melts--even these streets, / time speeded, squirm like eels.
Reminiscing about her in his 1987 autobiography
Timebends: A Life, Miller lamented that she was rarely taken seriously as anything but a sex symbol.
In
Timebends: A Life (1987), Miller reminisces fondly about his college days: "In the thirties Ann Arbor was regarded as a radical enclave in the heart of the Middle West" (94).
Following a preface by the editor (vii-x), this volume contains the following essays: Enoch Brater, "Early Days, Early Works: Arthur Miller at the University of Michigan" (1-16); Frank Gagliano, "The
Timebends World: Prospect for Performance" (17-22); Mike Sell, "Arthur Miller and the Drama of American Liberalism" (23-35); Bruce J.
Amanda Wingfield Jessica Lange Tom Wingfield Christian Slater Laura Wingfield Sarah Paulson The Gentleman Caller Josh Lucas In his autobiography "
Timebends," Arthur Miller wrote, "The revolutionary newness of "The Glass Menagerie' was in its poetic lift, but an underlying hard dramatic structure was what earned the play its right to sing poetically.