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    Arthur Miller

    Dec 13, 2023 2 minutes

    I first met Arthur Miller (1915-2005) when he came to a drama class I was running at his alma mater, the University of Michigan, back in 1987.

    Before his arrival, I told my students not to mention the marriage to Marilyn Monroe that magazine had called ‘the most unlikely since that of

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