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Arthur Miller
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Arthur Miller
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Born Arthur Asher Miller
October 17, 1915
Harlem, New York City, U.S.
Died February 10, 2005 (aged 89)
Roxbury, Connecticut, U.S.
Occupation
Playwrightessayist
Nationality American
Alma mater University of Michigan
Notable works
All My Sons
Death of a Salesman
The Crucible
A View from the Bridge
Notable awards
1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
1984 Kennedy Center Honors
2001 Praemium Imperiale
2003 Jerusalem Prize
Spouse Mary Slattery
(m. 1940; div. 1956)
Marilyn Monroe
(m. 1956; div. 1961)
Inge Morath
(m. 1962; died 2002)
Children 4, including Rebecca Miller
Relatives Joan Copeland (sister)
Daniel Day-Lewis (son-in-law)
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Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist in the 20th-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), and A View from the Bridge (1955, revised 1956). He wrote several screenplays and was most noted for his work on The Misfits (1961). The drama Death of a Salesman has been numbered on the short list of finest American plays in the 20th century.
Miller was often in the public eye, particularly during the late 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s. During this time, he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and married Marilyn Monroe. In 1980, Miller received the St. Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates.[1][2] He received the Prince of Asturias Award, the Praemium Imperiale prize in 2002 and the Jerusalem Prize in 2003,[3] as well as the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize in 1999.
Contents
1 Biography
1.1 Early life
1.2 Early career
1.3 Critical years
1.3.1 Marriages and family
1.3.2 HUAC controversy and The Crucible
1.4 Later career
1.5 Death
2 Legacy
2.1 Foundation
2.2 Archive
2.3 Literary and public criticism
3 Works
3.1 Stage plays
3.2 Radio plays
3.3 Screenplays
3.4 Assorted fiction
3.5 Non-fiction
3.6 Collections
4 References
4.1 Bibliography
5 Further reading
6 External links
Biography
Early life
Miller was born on October 17, 1915, in Harlem, in the New York City borough of Manhattan, and has published an account of his early years under the title 'A Boy Grew in Brooklyn'; the second of three children of Augusta (Barnett) and Isidore Miller. Miller was Jewish and of Polish-Jewish descent.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10] His father was born in Radomyśl Wielki, Galicia (then part of Austria-Hungary, now Poland), and his mother was a native of New York whose parents also arrived from that town.[11] Isidore owned a women's clothing manufacturing business employing 400 people. He became a wealthy and respected man in the community.[12] The family, including Miller's younger sister Joan Copeland, lived on West[13] 110th Street in Manhattan, owned a summer house in Far Rockaway, Queens, and employed a chauffeur.[14] In the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the family lost almost everything and moved to Gravesend, Brooklyn.[15] (One source says they moved to Midwood.)[16] As a teenager, Miller delivered bread every morning before school to help the family.[14] After graduating in 1932 from Abraham Lincoln High School, he worked at several menial jobs to pay for his college tuition at the University of Michigan.[15][17] After graduation (circa 1936), he began to work as a psychiatric aide and also a copywriter before accepting faculty posts at New York University and University of New Hampshire. On May 1, 1935, Miller joined the League of American Writers (1935–1943), whose members included Alexander Trachtenberg of International Publishers, Franklin Folsom, Louis Untermeyer, I. F. Stone, Myra Page, Millen Brand, Lillian Hellman, and Dashiell Hammett. (Members were largely either Communist Party members or fellow travelers.)[18]