Arthur Miller

... Arthur Miller Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 - February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist, and author. He was a prominent figure in American literature and cinema for over 61 years, writing a wide variety of plays, some of his major dramatics are The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, All My Sons, and Death of a Salesman, which are still studied and performed worldwide. He also wrote some books which include Timebends (autobiography) which he wrote in 1987, in the year 2000 he wrote Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected essays. Arthur Miller, the son of moderately affluent Jewish-American parents, Isidore and Augusta Miller, was born in Harlem, New York City in 1915. His father owned a coat-manufacturing business, which failed in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, after which his family moved to humbler quarters in Brooklyn. He was married to Mary Grace Slattery in 1940 (he

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