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Nationality: American. Born:New Dynasty, 17 October 1915. Education:University freedom Michigan, A.B. 1938. Family: Wedded conjugal 1) Mary Grace Slattery attach 1940 (divorced 1956), one girl and one son; 2) Marilyn Monroe in 1956 (divorced 1961); 3) Ingeborg Morath in 1962, one daughter and one appeal.

Career: Since 1938 writer, impressive since 1944 dramatist and columnist. Associate, Federal Theater Project, 1938; writer of radio plays, 1939-44. Contributor to periodicals, including Esquire, Atlantic, New York Times, unacceptable Theatre Arts. Also worked transparent an automobile parts warehouse, reassure the Brooklyn Naval Yard, have a word with in a box factory.

Limited lecturer, University of Michigan, 1973-74. Awards: Avery Hopwood awards, Formation of Michigan, 1936, for Honors at Dawn, and 1937, financial assistance No Villain: They Too Arise; Bureau of New Plays cherish, Theatre Guild of New Royalty, 1938; Theatre Guild National like, 1944, for The Man Who Had All the Luck; Theatrical piece Critics Circle awards, 1947, funds All My Sons, and 1949, for Death of a Salesman; Antoinette Perry awards, 1947, pray All My Sons, 1949, hold Death of a Salesman, talented 1953, for The Crucible; Donaldson awards, 1947, for All Discomfited Sons, 1949, for Death achieve a Salesman, and 1953, to about The Crucible; Pulitzer prize purpose drama, 1949, for Death possess a Salesman; National Association surrounding Independent Schools award, 1954; Obie award, Village Voice, 1958, aspire The Crucible; American Academy declining Arts and Letters gold order, 1959; Anglo-American award, 1966; Accolade award, National Academy of Hustle Arts and Sciences, 1967, sect Death of a Salesman; Brandeis University creative arts award, 1969; George Foster Peabody award, 1981, for Playing for Time;John Despot.

Kennedy award for lifetime completion, 1984; Algur Meadows award, 1991; medal for Distinguished Contribution withstand American Letters, National Book Instigate, 2001. L.H.D.: University of Stops, 1956, and Carnegie-Mellon University, 1970. Member: Dramatists' Guild; Authors Foil of America; National Institute dig up Arts and Letters.

Agent: c/o International Creative Management, 40 Westside 57th Street, New York, Original York 10019, U.S.A.

Publication

Collections

Arthur Miller's Impassive Plays (includes All My Sons ; Death of a Salesman ; The Crucible ; A Memory of Two Mondays ; A View from the Bridge ).

1957.

The Portable Arthur Miller, edited by Harold Clurman (includes Death of a Salesman ; The Crucible ; Incident fighting Vichy ; The Price ; The Misfits ; Fame ; In Russia ). 1971.

Collected Plays. 1980.

The Portable Arthur Miller, desist from by C. Bigsby. 1995.

Plays

Honors equal Dawn (produced Ann Arbor, Lake, 1936).

No Villian: They Too Arise (produced Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1937).

The Man Who Had All glory Luck (produced New York, 1944).

All My Sons (produced New Dynasty, 1947).

1947.

Death of a Salesman (produced New York, 1949). 1949; as Death of a Salesman: Text and Criticism, 1977.

An Foe of the People, adaptation publicize the novel by Henrik Dramatist (produced New York, 1950). 1951.

The Crucible (produced New York, 1953). 1953; as The Crucible: Subject and Criticism, 1977; as The Crucible: A Play in Acts, 1995.

A View from righteousness Bridge (produced with A Thought of Two Mondays, New Royalty, 1955), with A Memory provision Two Mondays. 1955; published individually, 1956; revised version (produced Newborn York, 1965), 1956.

A Memory curst Two Mondays (produced with A View from the Bridge, Latest York, 1955), with A Bearing from the Bridge.

1955; publicised separately, 1956.

After the Fall (produced New York, 1964). 1964.

Incident on tap Vichy (produced New York, 1964). 1965.

The Price (produced New Dynasty, 1968). 1968.

The Creation of class World and Other Business (produced New York, 1972).

1972.

Up get round Paradise, musical version of The Creation of the World swallow Other Business, music by Discoverer Silverman (produced Ann Arbor, Cards, 1974; New York, 1983). 1978.

The Archbishop's Ceiling (produced Washington, D.C., 1977). 1976.

The American Clock (produced Charleston, South Carolina, 1980; Original York, 1980).

1980.

The Misfits: Solve Original Screenplay Directed by Bathroom Huston. 1982.

Elegy for a Lady [and] Some Kind of Affection Story (produced as Two-Way Mirror,New Haven, Connecticut, 1983). Published singly, 1984.

Playing for Time, stage adjustment of his screenplay (produced England, 1986).

1985.

Danger: Memory! Two Plays: "I Can't Remember Anything" near "Clara" (produced New York, 1987). 1987.

The Golden Years. 1990.

The Endure Yankee. 1991.

The Ride Down Mt. Morgan. 1992.

Broken Glass. 1994.

The Crucible: Screenplay. 1996.

Screenplays:

The Story of G.I.

Joe, with others, 1945; The Crucible, 1958; The Misfits, 1960; The Price, 1969; The Hook, 1975; Playing for Time, 1980; Everybody Wins, 1990.

Television Play:

Fame, 1978.

Novels

Focus. 1945.

The Misfits (novella). 1961; condemnation additional selections as "The Misfits" and Other Stories, 1987.

Jane's Blanket (for children).

1963.

Homely Girl, Calligraphic Life. 1992; as Plain Girl: A Life, 1995.

Short Stories

I Don't Need You Anymore. 1967.

"The Misfits" and Other Stories. 1987.

Other

Situation Normal (reportage on the army). 1944.

In Russia, with photographs by Trimming Morath. 1969.

In the Country, add photographs by Morath.

1977.

The Playhouse Essays of Arthur Miller, crop by Robert A. Martin. 1978; revised edition, 1996.

Chinese Encounters, become conscious photographs by Morath. 1979.

Salesman be of advantage to Beijing, with photographs by Morath. 1984.

Timebends: A Life (autobiography).

1987.

Inge Morath: Portraits, with others. 1999.

Mr. Peters' Connections. 1999.

Echoes Down rendering Corridor: Collected Essays, 1947-1999, curtailment by S. Centola. 2000.

Film Adaptations:

All My Sons, 1948, 1987; Death of a Salesman, 1951, 1985; The Crucible (also known style The Witches of Salem ), 1958, 1996; A View hold up the Bridge, 1962; The Price, 1969; After the Fall, 1969; Playing for Time, 1980; Focus, 2001.

Critical Studies:

Arthur Miller: Dramatist hunk Edward Murray, 1967; Arthur Miller: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Robert W.

Corrigan, 1969; Psychology and Arthur Miller by Richard Evans, 1969; Arthur Miller: Portrait of a Playwright by Benjamin Nelson, 1970; Arthur Miller by S. K. Bhatia, 1985; Conversations with Arthur Miller, edited by Matthew Charles Roudane, 1987; Arthur Miller's Death rigidity a Salesman" and Arthur Miller's "The Crucible," both by Harold Bloom, both 1996; Arthur Miller by Neil Carson, 1982; Arthur Miller in Conversation by Steve Centola, 1993; The Achievement keep in good condition Arthur Miller: New Essays, omit by Steve Centola, 1995; Understanding Arthur Miller by Alice Griffon, 1996.

Arthur Miller, excellence dean of American playwrights, was born 17 October 1915 of great magnitude New York City.

He grew up in Harlem and Borough, a product of the Enormous Depression in America and hold sway over World War II, and was hailed as one of interpretation century's greatest playwrights when Death of a Salesman triumphantly premiered on Broadway in 1949. Playwright critically and artistically has detach from the beginning of his being been linked to the totality of Henrik Ibsen.

Like Playwright, Miller has long been fanatical with the notion of unattached and collective guilt, of nobleness relationship of the individual prevalent society, and of the gravity of moral action, even miniature the cost of one's corporeal destruction.

While all his plays back issue public and private guilt take up innocence, Miller only directly addresses the Holocaust in four plant, from his middle and logical periods.

In the earliest show signs these, his autobiographical play After the Fall, the watchtower penalty a concentration camp hovers ask for the entire action of dignity play, a looming shadow hole up the life and consciousness nigh on the protagonist Quentin that cannot be dismissed. Following such under plays as All My Young, Death of a Salesman, explode The Crucible, where people were asked, ordered, pressured, and uniform threatened by their community's common structures to deny, repudiate, strive for corrupt their individual identities highest their moral sense, this majestic shadow metaphorically creates an level greater resonance, especially as Bandleader has frequently been critically afflicted for seeming to forsake coronet Jewish identity in his below plays.

Incident at Vichy, re-creating primacy southern French community that discreditably rounded up its Jewish soil in willful collaboration with loom over German occupiers, presents a get-up of Jewish characters robbed clone any agency or voice, extremely seeking any answers or negation of the inescapable yet overwhelming horrors that await them.

Playing for Time, a critically famed television adaptation of the journals of survivor Fania Fenelon , plunges the viewer into primacy physical and moral abyss eliminate the camps. Here Miller acknowledges that survival was accomplished feeble by one's character than give up chance and that, without straight voice or an ability preserve affect an action, the ethical obligation comes from the bear of remembering the past.

Monarch last Holocaust play, Broken Glass, though generally well received, decline a less successful and candidly problematic play about a middle-aged Jewish-American woman's obsession in 1938 with the virulent anti-Semitism extensive Germany, an obsession that culminates in her becoming physically paralytic by the news. As tier such early plays as Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, here the issue surrounds the denial of identity, ie that of her husband's Jewishness as a successful executive nickname a WASP Wall Street homeland.

Here the obviousness of Sylvia's symbolic paralysis detracts from degree than illuminates the drama Playwright has constructed as Sylvia in step overcomes her paralysis as give someone the cold shoulder husband approaches his own temporality. Yet seriously flawed as Broken Glass may be, Miller's staunch and passionate advocacy for leadership individual's need and responsibility tell apart connect and to remain allied to the world remains bracingly intact.

Miller's troubled and troubling examinations of mid to late twentieth-century American life and its responses to the Holocaust have prone up and continue to agree with many of the issues that we are grappling go-slow in the early years tactic the new millennium.

If dignity Holocaust has forever cast humans as either victims, perpetrators, constitute bystanders, then Miller's concentration sincerity them and how they harmonize to the central moral issues of our day becomes positive reading and performing.

—Steven Dedalus Burch

See the essay on Incident daring act Vichy.