Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller was a world renowned, award-winning author who wrote some of the most famous American plays of all time, in addition to screenplays and books. Along with Tennessee Williams, he was the best-known American playwright after WWII.http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/amiller.htm He is probably best known for his critically acclaimed play, Death of a Salesman.

Miller's early life was impacted by the Great Depression, and he spent most of his childhood in a simple frame house in Brooklyn, NY. The house is said to be the "setting" for his most famous work, Death of a Salesman. There was nothing in his upbrining to inspire his genius, until he read the novel The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky, at which point Miller decided to become a writer.http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/amiller.htm

Miller wrote in excess of thirty plays, which earned him a Pulitzer Prize and multiple Tony Awards. His play, The Crucible premiered in 1953. It is a fictional portrayal of the Salem witch hunts which took place in the late 1600s. But, even more poignantly, Miller used the plot of the play to express how he detested the McCarthy era, during which the House Un-American Activities Committee put American citizens through scrutiny similar to the Spanish Inquisition when randomly asking people if they were sympathetic to communism. He had this to say about the circumstance: ""A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence."http://www.neh.gov/whoweare/miller/biography.html<ref>

• 1915: October 17, Arthur Asher Miller is born in Harlem, NY

• 1940: Marries college sweetheart, Mary Slattery

• 1947: All My Sons earns first Tony Award

• 1949: Death of a Salesman, directed by Elia Kazan, earns 6 Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize

• 1953: The Crucible earns Tony Award

• 1956: Miller is called before the HUAC for attending communist meetings, and a week later marries Marilyn Monroe

• 1957: Found guilty of contempt of Congress for refusing to name names

• 1958: Conviction is reversed by U.S. Court of Appeals

• 1962: Marries photographer Inge Morath

• 1968: The Price earns Tony Award

• 1985: Television version of Death of a Salesman earns 3 Emmy Awards

• 1994: Broken Glass earns Tony Award

• 2000: The Ride Down Mt. Morgan earns Tony Award

• 2002: Miller's wife Inge dies

• 2005: Miller dies of congestive heart failure in Roxbury, Connecticut

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• 1961: The Misfits (Film)

• 1966: Death of a Salesman (Television)

• 1985: Death of a Salesman (Television)

• 1986: All My Sons (Television)

• 1996: The Crucible (Film)

• 1996: Death of a Salesman (Television)

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