Recommended Reading

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By Arthur Miller

Plays

After the Fall: A Play
Viking Press, 1964

All My Sons: A Drama in Three Acts
Penguin Books, 2000

Broken Glass: A Play
Penguin Books, 1994

Death of a Salesman
Penguin Books, 1976

The Price: A Play
Viking Press, 1968

The Ride Down Mt. Morgan
Penguin Books, 1992

A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts
Bantam Books, 1961

Fiction

Presence: Stories
Viking Books, 2007

Homely Girl, a Life and Other Stories
Viking Books, 1995

I Don’t Need You Any More; Stories
Viking Press, 1967

Nonfiction

Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays, 1944-2000
Penguin Books, 2001

The Theater Essays of Arthur Miller
Viking Press, 1978

Timebends: A Life
Grove Press, 1987

About Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller
Edited by Harold Bloom
Chelsea House Publishers, 2003

Arthur Miller: His Life and Work
By Martin Gottfried
Da Capo Press, 2003

Readings on Arthur Miller
Edited by Thomas Siebold
Greenhaven Press, 1997

Articles

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“Arthur Miller”
Contemporary Authors Online
Thomson Gale, 2007

“Beware the Loss of Conscience: The Crucible as Warning for Today”
By Judith A. Cerjak
The English Journal, 1987
Available at all Chicago Public Library locations.

“Miller Drama About Salem Is Vivid Theater”
By John Chapman
Chicago Daily Tribune, 1953

“A Conversation with Arthur Miller”
By William R. Ferris
Humanities, 2001

“The Crucible of History: Arthur Miller’s John Proctor”
By William J. McGill, Jr.
The New England Quarterly, 1981
Available at all Chicago Public Library locations.

“The Moral of Arthur Miller”
By Stephen Schwartz
The Weekly Standard, 2005

“Miller’s Tale”
By Wendy Smith
The American Scholar, 2005

Fiction

1984
By George Orwell
Harcourt Brace, 1949

Blacklist
By Sara Paretsky
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2003

The Book of Daniel
By E.L. Doctorow
Random House, 1971

Brothers Karmazov
By Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1880

Eye in the Door
By Pat Barker
Dutton, 1994

Fahrenheit 451
By Ray Bradbury
Ballantine, 1952

Fellow Travelers
By Thomas Mallon
Pantheon, 2007

I Married a Communist
By Philip Roth
Houghton Mifflin, 1998

I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
By Maryse Conde
University Press of Virginia, 1992

Kirinyaga
By Mike Resnick
Ballantine, 1998

Plays

A Man for All Seasons
By Robert Bolt
Random House, 1962

Angels in America
By Tony Kushner
Theatre Communications Group, 1993

Inherit the Wind
By Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Random House, 1955

Nonfiction

The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism
By Haynes Johnson
Harcourt, 2005

The Age of McCarthyism
By Ellen Schrecker
Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, 1994

American Theocracy
By Kevin P. Phillips
Viking, 2006

The Bill of Rights
Edited by Tom Head
GreenHaven, 2004

Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America
By Ellen Schrecker
Little, Brown, 1998

A Shadow of Red: Communism and the Blacklist in Radio and Television
By David Everitt
Ivan R. Dee, 2007

For Kids and Teens

The Chocolate War
By Robert Cromier
Pantheon, 1974 (Ages 12 and up)

Nothing But the Truth
By Avi
Orchard, 1991 (Ages 12 and up)

The Salem Witch Trials: An Unsolved Mystery from History
By Jane Yolen and Heidi Ellsabet Yolen Stemple, illustrated by Roger Roth
Simon and Schuster, 2004 (Ages 9-12)

Tituba of Salem Village
By Ann Petry
HarperTrophy, 1991 (Ages 9-13)

The Witch of Blackbird Pond
By Elizabeth George Speare
Houghton, 1958 (Ages 9-13)

Witch-hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials
By Marc Aronson
Atheneum, 2003 (Ages 14 and up)

Witness the Salem Witchcraft Trails
By Elaine Landau
Enslow, 2006 (Ages 9-13)

Witches’ Children: A Story of Salem
By Patricia Clapp
Puffin, 1987 (Ages 9-13)