Arthur Miller: why America lowered the curtain on his reputation
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…