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Mylene Abesamis Connor Bisquera Danny Aguiniga David Chavez BACKGROUND OF THE CRUCIBLE: ARTHUR MILLER
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-Arthur Miller was born on October 17, 1915 in New York city -In 1932 after graduating high school Miller went to work in an auto parts warehouse -Two years later he enrolled in the University of Michigan -He won two Avery Hop Wood award for play writing BACKGROUND
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SOAPSTONE Group 1 Mrs. Hong assigned it The students To tell about Arthur Miller’s life Arthur Miller Informative
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HIS LIFE Went to Abraham Lincoln High Married to Marilyn Monroe Second of three children of Isidore and Augusta Miller Parents were polish-Jewish immigrants Delivered bread every morning before school to help the family Left his first wife, Mary Slattery
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PLAYWRITING CAREER Playwriting: Writing the script of a play/act Started out a bit rocky Much of his screenplays were successful. Some include: The Man Who Had All the Luck All My Sons The Crucible
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS Won his first Tony award for the play “All My Sons” The play “Death of a Salesman won him the Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award and a Tony. Nominated for an Oscar Nominated for a BAFTA film award Nominated for a Prime Time Emmy, and won Two Prime Time Emmys Won a Golden Satellite award
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Before he died, his very last play was: The Price (1968) His 3 rd wife died Planned to marry his 4 th wife, Agnes Barley. Unfortunately, on February 10, 2005 (the 56th anniversary of Death of a Salesman's Broadway debut), Miller died at 89 years old due to heart failure.
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