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 · In these circumstances, Millen Brand’s novel The Outward Room, recently re-issued by New York Review Books, presents some stumbling Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. Millen Brand was a writer and poet. His novels Savage Sleep and The Outward Room, which addressed mental health institutions, were bestsellers in the s and s, respectively. Combine Editions/5. Millen Brand, Peter Cameron (Afterword) · Rating details · ratings · 61 reviews. The Outward Room is a book about a young woman’s journey from madness to self-discovery. It created a sensation when it was first published in , and has lost none of its immediacy or its power to move the reader/5.

The story of that emerging love, told with the lyricism of Virginia Woolf and the realism of Theodore Dreiser, is the heart of Millen Brand's remarkable book. About The Outward Room The Outward Room is a book about a young woman's journey from madness to self-discovery. Millen Brand. Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter. He is best known for the critically-acclaimed, best-selling novel "The Outward Room" (), and the Oscar-nominated screenplay (with Frank Partos) for "The Snake Pit" (). Born Elmer Millen Brand in Jersey City, New Jersey, he was the son of Elmer Brand and Carrie E. Myers. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for The Outward Room by Millen Brand (, Trade Paperback) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!

In , Brand wrote his first novel,The Outward Room. It was a Book of the Month Club selection and critical success that sold more than half a million copies. [13] It was translated into six languages, made into a Broadway play (The World We Made), a radio drama, and a TV play starring a young Charlton Heston. The Outward Room, Brand’s first and most acclaimed novel, appeared in , and was adapted for Broadway in as The World We Make. in , with Frank Partos, he received an academy award nomination for his screenplay adaptation of Mary Jane Ward’s novel The Snake Pit. Brand’s association with members of the Hollywood Ten led to his questioning by the House Unamerican activities committee; he refused to cooperate, invoking the Fifth amendment. The Outward Room, Brand’s first and most acclaimed novel, appeared in , and was adapted for Broadway in as The World We Make. in , with Frank Partos, he received an academy award nomination for his screenplay adaptation of Mary Jane Ward’s novel The Snake Pit.