1. The Life of Arthur Miller
By: Alyssa Silva, Ashley Johnson, & Patrick Griffin

2. Arthur had two siblings Graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School
Early Life
October 17, 1915
Arthur had two siblings
Graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School
Family moved in 1929
Interested in sports like football, and baseball
Miller was born in Harlem, New York City on October 17, 1915 to Jewish immigrant parents(Isidore and Augusta Miller). Older brother Kermit, younger sister Joan.
Miller lived in Harlem until his family lost almost everything because of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, and was forced to move to the Upper Eastside of Manhattan in Brooklyn.

3. Worked odd jobs to pay for his college tuition
Adult Life
Worked odd jobs to pay for his college tuition
Attended the University of Michigan
Married multiple times
Four children
Jobs: Auto part warehouse, delivered baked good for a bakery, truck driver, and a radio singer. He was rejected twice before he was accepted because he was seen more as a playwright than a student. Inge Morath, Marilyn Monroe, and Mary Grace Slattery.

4. Miller’s Accomplishments
He was given many different awards
Married Marilyn Monroe
Wrote many different plays through out his life
Including 2 Emmy awards and 3 tony awards and many others. In 1956 he married Marilyn Monroe but in 1961 they divorced and shortly after he remarried. His most famous plays include “All my sons”, “Death of a salesman”, and “The Crucible”. He also wrote a novel Focus.

5. The Crucible
It was an allegory
It showed the fact that McCarthyism was doing the same thing they did in the Salem witch trials.
An allegory is a story poem or picture that can be interpreted to have a different meaning. He wanted to show that McCarthyism and its hunt for communism was the same as the people of Salem against witches.

6. Later in his life he wrote plays about his past experiences
Late Life and death
Later in his life he wrote plays about his past experiences
Autobiography was published
In 2002 his 3rd wife Inge died
February 10th 2005
One included his last days of marriage to Marilyn Monroe. In 1987 his autobiography was published. When Inge died he soon became engaged to another woman a 34 year old painter by the name of Agnes Barly. February 10th 2005 Arthur Miller died from heart failure. It was the 56th anniversary of the play “Death of a Salesman” broad way premiere.

7. bibliography
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Jean-Christophe Broudin, #Why_did_Arthur_Miller_write_the_Crucible