Arthur Miller's cast-off son

From Vanity Fair: This wrenching and, to a guy who thought he knew all there was to know about Arthur Miller, genuinely shocking article about the playwright and the son he cast aside is liable to spur some major reassessing. Can a man who did this really be the great moral artist Miller is put forward as? Before the piling on begins, let's keep in mind that even great artists are products of their age, and Miller's was before mainstreaming of the disabled became commonplace. Still, one notes that Miller's wife, the photographer Inge Morath -- an accomplished artist in her own right -- did not treat their son as a dark secret to be hidden away. Mother's love? Or simple human decency?

Labels: Arthur Miller, Inge Morath, playwrights, playwriting, Vanity Fair