Quoting from Miller: "I wrote, or rather lived, this bit of color at Cleveland, Ohio, giving to it the entire autumn of gold. The prime purpose was to get the the atmosphere of an Ohio Saint Martin's* summer, but it grew to be a very serious matter. The story, what little there is of it, is literally true. In fact we must in some sort at least, live what we write if what we write is to live." Read it here
*The British version of Indian Summer.