title: Timebends a Life
author:  Arthur Miller 
description: Telling his life story with humor and passion--displaying throughout the largeness of spirit that has made him one of the most admired writers this country has ever produced--Miller recalls his boyhood, his education, the formation of his political outlook, his career successes and failures, and the remarkable variety of people, both obscure and famous, in his life.
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  # ARTHUR MILLER  
  
  
  TIMEBENDS  
  
  
  A LIFE
  
  
  
  
  
  ![image](../Images/pub.jpg)
  
  
  **_For Inge_**
  
  
  ## Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  [Foreword by Richard Eyre](../Text/ch00_fm06.html#ch00_fm06)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Introduction](../Text/ch00_fm07.html#ch00_fm07)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter One](../Text/ch01.html#ch01)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Two](../Text/ch02.html#ch02)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Three](../Text/ch03.html#ch03)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Four](../Text/ch04.html#ch04)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Five](../Text/ch05.html#ch05)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Six](../Text/ch06.html#ch06)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Seven](../Text/ch07.html#ch07)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Eight](ch08_split_000.html#ch08)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Afterword by Christopher Bigsby](../Text/ch09_aft.html#ch09_aft)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Plate Section](../Text/plates.html#plates)
  
  
  
  
  
  [A Note on the Author](../Text/ch00_fm01.html#ch00_fm01)
  
  
  
  
  
  [By the Same Author](../Text/ch00_fm02.html#ch00_fm02)
  
  
  ## [Foreword by Richard Eyre](../Text/ch00_fm08.html#ch00_fm06)
  
  
  
  
  
  Good autobiographies have often been written about small lives but few great
  men have succ