1. Biography of
Arthur Miller
By Amulya Babu

2. Young Miller
Arthur Miller is one of the famous play writers in the twentieth century.
He was born in October 1915 in New York City to a women's clothing manufacturer, who lost everything in the economic collapse of the 1930s in the U.S
He lived through young adulthood during the Great Depression, Miller suffered the poverty that surrounded him. The Depression gave him ideas for his plays.
After graduating from high school, Miller worked in a warehouse so that he could earn enough money to attend the University of Michigan. This is where he began to write plays.

3. Failures and Achievements
Miller's first play to make it to Broadway was called “The Man Who Had All the Luck” in 1944.
It was a failure though. It closed or stopped playing after only four performances.
This setback discouraged Miller from writing completely, but he gave himself one more try.
Three years later, “All My Sons” won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award as the best play of This success finally made Miller a theatrical star. And encouraged him to keep writing.

4. Famous Plays and Awards
Death of a Salesman (1949) secured Miller's reputation as one of the nation's leading playwrights.
Miller won a Tony Award for Death of a Salesman as well as a Pulitzer Prize.
The play has been frequently brought back in films, television, and stage versions

5. Crucible Trails
Miller followed Death of a Salesman with his most politically significant work, The Crucible (1953).
This is a story of the Salem witch trials that contains obvious analogies to the McCarthyism.
The arguable nature of the politics in “The Crucible” admires those who refuse to name names. This led to the play's mixed response.
In later years, however, it has become one of the most studied and performed plays of American theater.

6. Crucible Trails
The Crucible is often seen as an act of denouncing McCarthyism.
Miller had worked on several projects with Elia Kazan, who in 1952 testified and identified members or former members of the Communist Party.
Miller was under some suspicion of being a Communist or sympathizer himself, based on the petitions he signed and meetings he attended back in the 1940s.

7. Crucible Trails
Three years after The Crucible, in 1956, Miller found himself mistreated by the very force that he warned against.
He was called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Miller refused to name people he saw at a Communist writers' meeting a decade before, and he was convicted of disrespect.
He later won an appeal.

8. Marriage and Family
Soon after his trails in 1956, Miller married actress Marilyn Monroe in the same year but they divorced in 1961, one year before her death.
That year Monroe appeared in her last film, The Misfits, which is based on an original screenplay by Miller.
After divorcing Monroe, Miller married Ingeborg Morath, to whom he remained married until his death in The pair had a son and a daughter.
He died in 2005, at the age of 89.

9. Bibliography