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Arthur Miller biography
Arthur Miller
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Arthur Miller was born in 1915 in New York City. He spent his early years playing sports and ignoring books, but during his senior year of high school he read Dostoyevsky's The Idiot and it moved him to become a writer. Coming from a low-income working class family, Miller struggled to pay for college, taking numerous jobs, including working as a clerk in an auto parts warehouse, where for the first time he experienced the effects of American anti-Semitism.
Miller later attended the University of Michigan as a journalism major. It was there that he wrote his first play. It won a cash prize and the admiration of Mary Slattery (later his first wife), convincing him to write more plays and give up journalism for he theatre. YEars of struggle followed. Finally, in 1944, The Man Who Had All The Luck premiered on Broadwar only to close after six performances. Although the play was considered a flop, it still receieved the Theater Guild National Award.
Two years later, All My Sons (1947) premiered to rave reviews and awards. Death of a Salesman (1949) followed, winning the Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, the Antoinette Perry Award, the Donaldson Award,
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The 30th President Lecture fuse the Humanities
March 26, 2001
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Arthur Miller
American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)
For other people named Arthur Miller, see Arthur Miller (disambiguation).
Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter 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). He wrote several screenplays, including The Misfits (1961). The drama Death of a Salesman is considered one of the best American plays of the 20th century.
Miller was often in the public eye, particularly during the late 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s. During this time, he received a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and married Marilyn Monroe. In 1980, he received the St. Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates.[1][2] He received the Praemium Imperiale prize in 2001, the Prince of Asturias Award in 2002, and the Jerusalem Prize in 2003, and the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize in 1999.[3]
Early life and education
[edit]Miller was born in the Harlem area of Manhattan Island, the second of three children of Augusta (Barnett) a