Playwright's biographer, Christopher Bigsby, defends work produced in later years at Edinburgh book festivalWhen dramatist Arthur Miller died in 2005, the Wall Street Journal obituary was headlined "The Great Pretender: Arthur Miller wasn't well liked " and with good reason". New Criterion magazine was blunter, running with "Communist stooge".His was a tarnished name in the US: he was seen as a man whose best years a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:17PM on August 19, 2011