Radio actor Iron Rinn (born Ira Ringold) is a big Newark roughneck blighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist, a self-educated ditchdigger turned popular performer, a six-foot six-inch Abe Lincoln look-alike, he marries the nation's reigning radio actress and beloved silent-film star, the exquisite Eve Frame (born Chava Fromkin). Their marriage evolves from a glamorous, romantic idyll into a dispiriting soap opera of tears and treachery. And with Eve's dramatic revelation to the gossip columnist Bryden Grant of her husband's life of "espionage" for the Soviet Union, the relationship enlarges from private drama into national scandal. Set in the heart of the McCarthy era, the story of Iron Rinn's denunciation and disgrace brings to harrowing life the human drama that was central to the nation's political tribulations in the dark years of betrayal, the blacklist, and naming names. I Married a Communist is an American tragedy as only Philip Roth could write it.

菲利普·羅斯(Philip Roth)，1933年齣生在美國新澤西州的紐瓦剋市，被認為是當代最傑齣的美國猶太裔作傢之一。羅斯以短篇小說《再見，哥倫布》崛起，贏得美國多個主要文學奬項，1998年憑藉《美國牧歌》一舉獲得美國普利策文學奬，是近年來諾貝爾文學奬呼聲頗高的作傢之一。