Homely Girl, A Life: And Other Stories Paperback – 1 January 1997

"A Homely Girl, A Life" is an interesting study, whether you realize Miller was married to Marilyn Monroe when he wrote this or not. Just in passing, he touches on the Hitler-Stalin pact and a bit of the history of American communism."Fame", full of a bit of self-irony, provides comic relief between the two more serious stories.I first read "Fitter's Night", which is in this collection, many years ago when I worked in shipyards, and appreciated Miller's depiction of shipyard life and details of a particularly difficult job. What I missed the first time around was the subtle portrait of a guy who could just as well have been on the San Francisco waterfront in the 70's as in the Brooklyn Navy Yard in the 40's.