Arthur Miller (1915–2005) was born in New York City and studied at the University of Michigan. His plays include
All My Sons (1947),
Death of a Salesman (1949),
The Crucible (1953),
A View from the Bridge, A Memory of Two Mondays (1955),
After the Fall (1963),
Incident at Vichy (1964),
The Price (1968),
The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972) and
The American Clock (1980). He also wrote two novels,
Focus (1945) and
The Misfits, which was filmed in 1960, and the text for
In Russia (1969),
Chinese Encounters (1979), and
In the Country (1977), three books of photographs by his wife, Inge Morath. His later work included a memoir,
Timebends (1987); the plays
The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (1991),
The Last Yankee (1993),
Broken Glass (1994), and
Mr. Peter's Connections (1999);
Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays, 1944–2000; and
On Politics and the Art of Acting (2001). He twice won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and in 1949 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Miller was the recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 2001 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters in 2002, and the Jerusalem Prize in 2003.
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