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Sept. 2003. 496p index. Da Capo, $30 (0-306-81214-2). 812.52.
Gottfried says that his book about the man many consider America's greatest living playwright has the "advantages and disadvantages of both authorized and unauthorized biograph[ies]." He had a rich store of past interviews with Miller left over from his days with the New York Post, Saturday Review, and Women's Wear Daily, and from Jed Harris (1984), his biography of a notable Miller colleague. But Miller withdrew support for this book, refusing further interviews, when Gottfried's questions became too probing and personal, Miller didn't block access to his private papers, housed in university libraries throughout the U.S., though; he just didn't help sift ...