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Arthur Miller
Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright and essayist in the 20th-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), and A View from the Bridge (1955). He wrote several screenplays, including The Misfits (1961). The drama Death of a Salesman is considered one of the best American plays of the 20th century.
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culture · American playwright and essayist (1915–2005) · playwright · essayist · screenwriter · journalist · novelist · writer · prose writer · also Arthur Miller, Arthur Asher Miller, Miller
Born 17 October 1915 · Died 10 February 2005 · Q80596
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2026· 7 entries
Public attention spiked: 9,123 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.1× the usual 2,238, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 10,194 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.6× the usual 2,238, with 2 article edits.
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The Guardian: Arthur Miller opens up about marriage to Marilyn Monroe in newly unearthed recordings
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The Guardian: The Price review – Henry Goodman leads another Arthur Miller revival that’s right on the money
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The Guardian: John Proctor Is the Villain review – Arthur Miller’s classic sparks a #MeToo moment
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The Guardian: Broken Glass review – Arthur Miller’s shattering drama chills with new political resonance
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2025· 5 entries
The Guardian: All My Sons review – the stars of a dream cast align for Arthur Miller’s towering tragedy
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The Guardian: Ivo van Hove’s All My Sons extends the UK’s special relationship with Arthur Miller
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The Guardian: The Crucible review – Miller’s resonant tale of terror given radical sense of humour
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The Guardian: Abuse, witch-hunts and hangings: why Arthur Miller’s masterpiece The Crucible still haunts us
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The Guardian: Death of a Salesman review – Arthur Miller’s timeless tale of a small man crushed by big dreams
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2024· 1 entry
The Guardian: Here in America review – Miller and Kazan test the bonds of friendship in McCarthy-era witch-hunt drama
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2017· 1 entry
His daughter, Rebecca Miller, a writer and filmmaker, completed a documentary about her father's life, Arthur Miller: Writer
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2005· 7 entries
Died 2005-02-10.
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“I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.”
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“Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.”
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“Without alienation, there can be no politics.”
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“A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.”
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“The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.”
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“You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.”
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2003· 2 entries
Awarded Jerusalem Prize (2003).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense presented by Complutense University of Madrid (2003).
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2002· 2 entries
Awarded Princess of Asturias Literary Prize (2002).
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Received Spain's Principe de Asturias Prize for Literature as "the undisputed master of modern drama"
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2001· 5 entries
Awarded Jefferson Lecture (2001).
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Awarded Praemium Imperiale (2001).
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Received the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
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The Prince of Asturias Award in 2002, and the Jerusalem Prize in 2003, and the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize in 1999
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The National Endowment for the Humanities selected him for the Jefferson Lecture, the U
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1999· 2 entries
The writer Christopher Hitchens attacked Miller for comparing the Monica Lewinsky investigation to the Salem witch hunt
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San Jose State University honored Miller with the John Steinbeck "In the Souls of the People" Award, which is given to those who capture "Steinbeck's empathy, commitment to democratic values, and belief in the dignity of
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1998· 2 entries
Awarded Berlin Prize (1998).
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And Death of a Salesman was revived on Broadway in 1999 to celebrate its 50th anniversary
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1996· 1 entry
A film adaptation of The Crucible starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Scofield, Bruce Davison and Winona Ryder was released
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play (1995).
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1994· 1 entry
“a very depressing play in a time of great optimism”
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1993· 3 entries
Won National Medal of Arts (1993).
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Miller received the National Medal of Arts
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Received the Four Freedoms Award for Freedom of Speech
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1985· 1 entry
And the Arthur Miller Award for Dramatic Writing in 1999, and lending his name to the Arthur Miller Theatre in 2000
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1984· 2 entries
Awarded Kennedy Center Honors (1984).
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Salesman in Beijing, a book about Miller's experiences in Beijing, was published
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1983· 1 entry
Miller traveled to China to produce and direct Death of a Salesman at the People's Art Theatre in Beijing
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded St. Louis Literary Award (1980).
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1978· 1 entry
Published a collection of his Theater Essays, edited by Robert A
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1969· 1 entry
Miller's works were banned in the Soviet Union after he campaigned for the freedom of dissident writers
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1968· 1 entry
Miller attended the Democratic National Convention as a pledged delegate for Eugene McCarthy from Connecticut
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1966· 1 entry
Career landmark: president (1966–1969).
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1965· 1 entry
Was elected the first American president of PEN International, a position which he held for four years
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1964· 2 entries
At the ANTA Theatre in Washington Square Park amid a flurry of publicity and outrage at putting a Monroe-like character, Maggie, on stage
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After the Fall was produced, and is said to be a deeply personal view of Miller's experiences during his marriage to Monroe
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1962· 1 entry
“s head: After The Fall, the most interior play by an American master since O”
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1961· 2 entries
“s marriage dissolved. Monroe obtained a Mexican divorce from Miller in January 1961. In February 1962, Miller married photographer Inge Morath, who had worked as a photographer documenting the production of The Misfits. The first of their two children, Rebecca, was born September 15, 1962. Their son Daniel was born with Down syndrome in November 1966. Against his wife”
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Miller and Monroe divorced after five years of marriage
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1960· 1 entry
Directed by John Huston and starring Monroe
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1956· 1 entry
For a routine renewal of his passport, the House Un-American Activities Committee used this opportunity to subpoena him to appear before the committee
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1955· 1 entry
A one-act version of Miller's verse drama, titled A View from the Bridge, opened on Broadway in a joint bill with one of Miller's lesser-known plays, A Memory of Two Mondays
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1953· 2 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Play for The Crucible (1953).
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Miller likened the situation with the House Un-American Activities Committee to the witch hunt in Salem in 1692
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1952· 1 entry
Elia Kazan appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
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1951· 1 entry
Had a brief affair, and remained in contact
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1950· 1 entry
And who had seen her rise to stardom, put the blame for her death on her doctors as opposed to the stresses of being a star: "The girl was an addict of sleeping pills and she was made so by the God-damn doctors
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1949· 6 entries
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Death of a Salesman (1949).
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Awarded Tony Award for Best Play for Death of a Salesman (1949).
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Awarded Tony Award for Best Author (1949).
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At the Morosco Theatre, directed by Elia Kazan, and starring Lee J
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Miller exchanged letters with Eugene O'Neill regarding Miller's production of All My Sons
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“you have to go through the Inquisition”
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1948· 1 entry
Miller built a small studio in Roxbury, Connecticut
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1947· 2 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Author for All My Sons (1947).
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Miller's play All My Sons, the writing of which had commenced in 1941, was a success on Broadway (earning him his first Tony Award, for Best Author) and his reputation as a playwright was established
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1944· 1 entry
Miller's first play was produced: The Man Who Had All the Luck won the Theatre Guild's National Award
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1940· 1 entry
Miller married Mary Grace Slattery
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1938· 2 entries
Studied at University of Michigan, bachelor's degree (1938).
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Joined the Federal Theatre Project, a New Deal agency established to provide jobs in the theater
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1937· 1 entry
Miller wrote Honors at Dawn, which also received the Avery Hopwood Award
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1935· 1 entry
Joined the League of American Writers (1935–1943), whose members included Alexander Trachtenberg of International Publishers, Franklin Folsom, Louis Untermeyer, I
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1932· 2 entries
Studied at Abraham Lincoln High School, high school diploma (1932).
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From Abraham Lincoln High School, he worked at several menial jobs to pay for his college tuition at the University of Michigan
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1915· 2 entries
Born 1915-10-17.
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1800· 1 entry
Schools, supporting professional development of all certified theater teachers, and providing teaching artists, cultural partners, physical spaces, and theater ticket allocations for students
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