famous american author Arthur Miller

Arthur Asher Miller was born in October 17, 1915. Arthur Miller was a noted American Author and play writer. The most celebrated plays of all times written by Arthur Miller are The Crucible, Death of a Salesman, A View from the Bridge and All My Sons are still studied and performed worldwide. Arthur Miller was always in controversy firstly for refusing giving evidence in the House Un-American Activities Committee and then for marrying Marilyn Monroe.

Arthur Miller was born to affluent Jewish-American parents in New York City. Miller at first graduated in journalism from the University of Michigan and started working for Michigan Daily as a journalist. During this time he wrote No Villain for which he got the Avery Hopwood Award. In 1938 he again graduated in English and continued to write plays for the radio. In 1940 he married his college sweetheart Mary Slattery. They had two children, Jane and Robert. Robert later became the producer of the movie version of The Crucible in 1996.



In 1944 Arthur Miller wrote The Man Who Had All the Luck which was produced in New York. It won the Theater Guild’s National Award but it was not a successful play. It was in 1947 when he wrote All My Sons. The play was a huge success and ran for 328 performances. All My Sons received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and 2 Tony Awards. Miller built a small studio in Roxbury, Connecticut. During the same time he wrote Death of a Salesman for which he received the Pulitzer Prize a Tony Award for best Play. The Play ran for 742 performances.

In 1956 Miller divorced his wife and married Marilyn Monroe after a brief affair with her. The most publicized work of his was After the Fall which was staged in ANTA Theatre in Washington Square. In 1983 Miller went to China where his work Death of a Salesman was staged which was a huge success. In 2002 he won the Principe de Asturias Prize for Literature. His final play was Finishing the Picture opened at Goodman Theater, Chicago.

On February 10 2005 Arthur Miller died at the age of 89 at his home in Roxbury. Spanning over seven decades Arthur Miller is considered one of the greatest dramatists of 20th Century America.