Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller, (1915- ). US dramatist. His father was ruined during the Depression and Miller worked in a warehouse to pay for his studies at the University of Michigan. There he wrote his early plays, including All My Sons (1947). He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in drama for Death of a Salesman (1949). In The Crucible (1953) he uses the setting of the 17th-century witch hunts in Salem to condemn all instances of minority persecution, particularly the anti-communist trials in the US at that time. He also wrote short stories and a screenplay for his second wife, Marilyn Monroe. Miller’s more recent works include The Ride Down Mt Morgan (1991), The Last Yankee (1992), and the novel Plain Girl (1995).
