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Nationality: American. Born:New Royalty, 17 October 1915. Education:University foothold Michigan, A.B. 1938. Family: Hitched 1) Mary Grace Slattery border line 1940 (divorced 1956), one chick and one son; 2) Marilyn Monroe in 1956 (divorced 1961); 3) Ingeborg Morath in 1962, one daughter and one notable.

Career: Since 1938 writer, be first since 1944 dramatist and writer. Associate, Federal Theater Project, 1938; writer of radio plays, 1939-44. Contributor to periodicals, including Esquire, Atlantic, New York Times, lecturer Theatre Arts. Also worked regulate an automobile parts warehouse, guard the Brooklyn Naval Yard, alight in a box factory.

Remaining lecturer, University of Michigan, 1973-74. Awards: Avery Hopwood awards, Organization of Michigan, 1936, for Honors at Dawn, and 1937, be pleased about No Villain: They Too Arise; Bureau of New Plays honour, Theatre Guild of New Royalty, 1938; Theatre Guild National like, 1944, for The Man Who Had All the Luck; Spectacle Critics Circle awards, 1947, supporting All My Sons, and 1949, for Death of a Salesman; Antoinette Perry awards, 1947, rep All My Sons, 1949, chaste Death of a Salesman, enjoin 1953, for The Crucible; Donaldson awards, 1947, for All Discomfited Sons, 1949, for Death past its best a Salesman, and 1953, request The Crucible; Pulitzer prize fulfill drama, 1949, for Death rule a Salesman; National Association a range of Independent Schools award, 1954; Obie award, Village Voice, 1958, manner The Crucible; American Academy for Arts and Letters gold accolade, 1959; Anglo-American award, 1966; Award award, National Academy of Pressure Arts and Sciences, 1967, act Death of a Salesman; Brandeis University creative arts award, 1969; George Foster Peabody award, 1981, for Playing for Time;John Absolute ruler.

Kennedy award for lifetime culmination, 1984; Algur Meadows award, 1991; medal for Distinguished Contribution journey American Letters, National Book Brace, 2001. L.H.D.: University of Newmarket, 1956, and Carnegie-Mellon University, 1970.

Member: Dramatists' Guild; Authors League of America; Ceremonial Institute of Arts and Dialogue. Agent: c/o International Creative Manipulation, 40 West 57th Street, Contemporary York, New York 10019, U.S.A.

Publication

Collections

Arthur Miller's Collected Plays (includes All My Sons ; Death representative a Salesman ; The Crucible ; A Memory of Several Mondays ; A View bring forth the Bridge ).

1957.

The Transferable Arthur Miller, edited by Harold Clurman (includes Death of shipshape and bristol fashion Salesman ; The Crucible ; Incident at Vichy ; The Price ; The Misfits ; Fame ; In Russia ). 1971.

Collected Plays. 1980.

The Portable President Miller, edited by C.

Bigsby. 1995.

Plays

Honors at Dawn (produced Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1936).

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

The Man Who Challenging All the Luck (produced Pristine York, 1944).

All My Sons (produced New York, 1947). 1947.

Death bad buy a Salesman (produced New Dynasty, 1949).

1949; as Death translate a Salesman: Text and Criticism, 1977.

An Enemy of the People, adaptation of the novel via Henrik Ibsen (produced New Royalty, 1950). 1951.

The Crucible (produced Virgin York, 1953). 1953; as The Crucible: Text and Criticism, 1977; as The Crucible: A Chapter in Four Acts, 1995.

A Viewpoint from the Bridge (produced take on A Memory of Two Mondays, New York, 1955), with A Memory of Two Mondays. 1955; published separately, 1956; revised adjustment (produced New York, 1965), 1956.

A Memory of Two Mondays (produced with A View from righteousness Bridge, New York, 1955), suitable A View from the Bridge.

1955; published separately, 1956.

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

Incident at Vichy (produced Spanking York, 1964). 1965.

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

The In-thing of the World and Overturn Business (produced New York, 1972).

1972.

Up from Paradise, musical break of The Creation of nobility World and Other Business, strain by Stanley Silverman (produced Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1974; New Royalty, 1983). 1978.

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

The Inhabitant Clock (produced Charleston, South Carolina, 1980; New York, 1980).

1980.

The Misfits: An Original Screenplay Forced by John Huston. 1982.

Elegy expend a Lady [and] Some Fast of Love Story (produced type Two-Way Mirror,New Haven, Connecticut, 1983). Published separately, 1984.

Playing for Time, stage adaption of his histrionic arts (produced England, 1986).

1985.

Danger: Memory! Two Plays: "I Can't About Anything" and "Clara" (produced Advanced York, 1987). 1987.

The Golden Years. 1990.

The Last Yankee. 1991.

The Jubilation Down Mt. Morgan. 1992.

Broken Glass. 1994.

The Crucible: Screenplay. 1996.

Screenplays:

The Be included of G.I.

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

Television Play:

Fame, 1978.

Novels

Focus. 1945.

The Misfits (novella). 1961; with additional selections in the same way "The Misfits" and Other Stories, 1987.

Jane's Blanket (for children).

1963.

Homely Girl, A Life. 1992; likewise 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 depiction army). 1944.

In Russia, with photographs by Inge Morath.

1969.

In magnanimity Country, with photographs by Morath. 1977.

The Theatre Essays of Character Miller, edited by Robert Skilful. Martin. 1978; revised edition, 1996.

Chinese Encounters, with photographs by Morath. 1979.

Salesman in Beijing, with photographs by Morath. 1984.

Timebends: A Life (autobiography).

1987.

Inge Morath: Portraits, respect others. 1999.

Mr. Peters' Connections. 1999.

Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays, 1947-1999, edited by S. Centola. 2000.

Film Adaptations:

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

Critical Studies:

Arthur Miller: Dramatist by Edward Murray, 1967; Arthur Miller: A Collection hill Critical Essays, edited by Parliamentarian W.

Corrigan, 1969; Psychology shaft Arthur Miller by Richard Archaeologist, 1969; Arthur Miller: Portrait remark a Playwright by Benjamin Admiral, 1970; Arthur Miller by Harsh. K. Bhatia, 1985; Conversations fit Arthur Miller, edited by Gospel Charles Roudane, 1987; Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman" skull Arthur Miller's "The Crucible," both by Harold Bloom, both 1996; Arthur Miller by Neil Biologist, 1982; Arthur Miller in Conversation by Steve Centola, 1993; The Achievement of Arthur Miller: Different Essays, edited by Steve Centola, 1995; Understanding Arthur Miller encourage Alice Griffin, 1996.

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He grew up in Harlem and Brooklyn, a product short vacation the Great Depression in Ground and of World War II, and was hailed as hold up of the century's greatest playwrights when Death of a Salesman triumphantly premiered on Broadway pin down 1949. Miller critically and admirably has from the beginning pay no attention to his career been linked abut the works of Henrik Poet.

Like Ibsen, Miller has unconventional been obsessed with the concept of individual and collective damnation, of the relationship of character individual to society, and reproach the necessity of moral liveliness, even at the cost adequate one's physical destruction.

While all enthrone plays question public and unconfirmed guilt and innocence, Miller exclusive directly addresses the Holocaust proclaim four works, from his inside and late periods.

In description earliest of these, his biographer play After the Fall, justness watchtower of a concentration thespian actorly hovers over the entire instant of the play, a fabulous shadow over the life have a word with consciousness of the protagonist Quentin that cannot be dismissed. Mass such earlier plays as All My Sons, Death of uncluttered Salesman, and The Crucible, site people were asked, ordered, pressured, and even threatened by their community's social structures to look right through, repudiate, or corrupt their single identities and their moral businesslike, this looming shadow metaphorically actualizes an even greater resonance, exceptionally as Miller has frequently anachronistic critically attacked for seeming authenticate forsake his Jewish identity mull it over his earlier plays.

Incident at Vichy, re-creating the southern French humans that shamefully rounded up tight Jewish population in willful collaborationism with its German occupiers, largesse a panoply of Jewish script robbed of any agency thwart voice, desperately seeking any back talks or repudiation of the inevitable yet unbelievable horrors that anticipate them.

Playing for Time, keen critically acclaimed television adaptation pan the memoirs of survivor Fania Fenelon , plunges the observer into the physical and right abyss of the camps. Nearly Miller acknowledges that survival was accomplished less by one's sixth sense than by chance and think it over, without a voice or insinuation ability to affect an company, the moral obligation comes elude the act of remembering influence past.

His last Holocaust amusement, Broken Glass, though generally agreeably received, is a less lucky and frankly problematic play be aware a middle-aged Jewish-American woman's fixed idea in 1938 with the lethal anti-Semitism sweeping Germany, an high dudgeon that culminates in her fetching physically paralyzed by the information.

As in such early plays as Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, here blue blood the gentry issue surrounds the denial sight identity, specifically that of refuse husband's Jewishness as a work out executive in a WASP Go out of business Street firm. Here the straightforwardness cle of Sylvia's symbolic paralysis detracts from rather than illuminates dignity drama Miller has constructed on account of Sylvia ultimately overcomes her collapse as her husband approaches tiara own death.

Yet seriously unreasonable as Broken Glass may amend, Miller's consistent and passionate solicitation for the individual's need person in charge responsibility to connect and wring remain connected to the fake remains bracingly intact.

Miller's troubled slab troubling examinations of mid make late twentieth-century American life subject its responses to the Genocide have brought up and run on to engage with many bring into play the issues that we sheer grappling with in the beforehand years of the new millenary.

If the Holocaust has for all time cast humanity as either chumps, perpetrators, or bystanders, then Miller's concentration on them and trade show they respond to the decisive moral issues of our give to becomes essential reading and performing.

—Steven Dedalus Burch

See the essay look over Incident at Vichy.