The NonconformistsHow risky encounters between American and Czech writers behind the Iron Curtain shaped the art and politics of the Cold War and helped define an era of dissent. "In some indescribable way, we are each other's continuation," Arthur Miller wrote of the imprisoned Czech playwright Vclav Havel. After a Soviet led invasion ended the Prague Spring, many US based writers experienced a similar shock of solidarity. Brian Goodman examines the surprising and