Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller (born October 17, 1915) is an American playwright. His father was a women's clothing manufacturer and shopkeeper who was ruined during the Great Depression.
Miller's works
- Death of a Salesman
- The Crucible
- All My Sons
- The Misfits
- After the Fall
- The Archbishop's Ceiling/The American Clock
- Rewrite of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People
- Broken Glass
- The Creation of the World and Other Business
- Danger: Memory!: Two Plays: I Can't Remember Anything, Clara
- Elegy For a Lady
- Everybody Wins: A Screenplay
- Incident at Vichy
- The Last Yankee: With a New Essay About Theatre Language
- A Memory of Two Mondays
- Mr. Peters' Connections
- Playing for Time
- The Price
- The Ride Down Mt. Morgan
- Some Kind of Love Story
- A View from the Bridge
Other works
- Focus
- Homely Girl, a Life: And Other Stories
- The Theater Essays of Arthur Miller
- Timebends: A Life
Chronology
- October 17, 1915 Arthur Asher Miller born to Polish-Jewish immigrants Isadore and Augusta. They also have a son, Kermit, and a daughter, Joan.
- 1936 Honors at Dawn, his first play, is produced at the University of Michigan. He wins an Avery Hopwood Award.
- 1938 Graduates from the University of Michigan, majoring in journalism.
- 1940 Marries college sweetheart Mary Slattery. They have two children, Jane and Robert.
- 1949 Publishes Death of a Salesman. The play wins the Pulitzer Prize and three Tony Awards.
- 1953 Publishes The Crucible (opened on Broadway on January 22).
- June 1956 Appears before the House Un-American Activities Committee because he was named by Elia Kazan. They had attended communist meetings together. He refuses to inform on others.
- June 29, 1956 Marries Marilyn Monroe.
- May 31, 1957 Found guilty of contempt of Congress for refusing to reveal the names of members of a literary circle suspected of Communist affiliations.
- August 8, 1958 Conviction is reversed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
- 1958 Publishes Collect Plays.
- February 17, 1962 Marries Inge Morath. They met when she and other photographers from the legendary Magnum agency was assigned to document the making of The Misfits.
- 1985 Visits Turkey and is honoured at an American embassy function. After his companion on the trip, the British playwright Harold Pinter is thrown out for discussing torture in Turkey, Miller leaves with him in support.
Notes
- Death of a Salesman was the first play to take the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
- Was exempted from military service during World War II because of a football injury.
- According to biographer Martin Gottfried, Miller and Inge Morath had a son, Daniel, born with Down Syndrome. Miller put Daniel in an institution in Roxbury, Connecticut, and never visited him.
See theater, literature, University of Michigan, Hollywood Ten, House Unamerican Activities Committee