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b. New York City, Oct. 17, 1915 Miller began writing plays while a student at the University of Michigan

His father, Isidore Miller, was a ladies- wear manufacturer and shopkeeper who was ruined in the depression. The sudden change in fortune had a strong influence on Miller To study journalism he entered the University of Michigan in 1934, where he won awards for playwriting

Miller married the motion-picture actress Marilyn Monroe in 1956; they divorced in 1961.

First successes--All My Sons (1947) and Death of a Salesman (1949) Miller condemned the American ideal of prosperity on the grounds that few can pursue it without making dangerous moral compromises.