About the Book: All My Sons
Based on a true story, Arthur Millers play All My Sons was his first major success, a moving exploration of denial, guilt, social responsibility and the falsehood of the American Dream. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Christopher Bigsby. In Joe and Kate Kellers family garden, an apple tree-a memorial to their son Larry, lost in the Second World War-has been torn down by a storm. But his loss is not the only part of the familys past they cant put behind them. Not everybodys forgotten the court case that put Joes partner in jail, or the cracked engine heads his factory produced which caused it and dropped twenty-one pilots out of the sky. All My Sons is a moving, powerful drama of the ethics of profiteering and family, and the first great play from one of the finest playwrights of the twentieth century.
About the Author: Arthur Miller
American dramatist Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915. In 1938 Miller won awards for his comedy The Grass Still Grows. His major achievement was Death of a Salesman, which won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for drama and the 1949 New York Drama Critics Circle Award. The Crucible was aimed at the widespread congressional investigation of subversive activities in the US; the drama won the 1953 Tony Award. Millers autobiography, Timebends: A Life was published in 1987.
