MILLER, Arthur [Charles Strouse].
Timebends: A Life.
New York: Grove Press, 1987.
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First Edition of Arthur Miller's Timebends; Inscribed by Him to Broadway Composer Charles Strouse
First edition of the celebrated playwright's candid and sweeping autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to the Broadway composer Charles Strouse, "Charley? - Happy birthday Arthur Miller June 6/93." The recipient, Charles Strouse, was a Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award-winning composer whose fifty-year career produced some of the most enduring works in the history of American musical theater, among them Bye Bye Birdie, Applause, and Annie, as well as the theme song for the classic sitcom All in the Family ("Those Were the Days"). His partnership with Martin Charnin on Annie produced one of Broadway's most successful scores ever, with "Tomorrow" and other songs from the production becoming enduring American musical standards admired by generations. His reach knew no genre or generation, from a number-one Billboard hit in 1958 to Jay-Z's Grammy-winning sampling of "It's the Hard-Knock Life" four decades later, and his honors include three Tony Awards and induction into both the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Theater Hall of Fame. From the collection of Strouse and his wife, the choreographer Barbara Siman, with his ownership stamp to the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Anthony.
Timebends: A Life is the autobiography of Arthur Miller, one of the most important American playwrights of the twentieth century and the author of Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, All My Sons, and A View from the Bridge. Published in 1987, it is a sweeping and candid memoir that moves associatively across the decades, recounting his Depression-era boyhood, his rise in the American theater, his principled defiance of the House Un-American Activities Committee, and his marriage to Marilyn Monroe. Miller (1915 to 2005) won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Death of a Salesman in 1949 and remained a towering moral presence in American letters until his death.
Timebends: A Life.
$475.00
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