Arthur Miller

• Arthur Asha Miller was born on 17th October 1915 and died on 10th February 2005
• His most famous works include 'A View From the Bridge,' 'The Crucible,' 'Death Of A Salesman' and 'All My Sons.'
• As well as writing plays, he wrote assorted fiction, screen plays, non-fiction and radio plays
• He was born in New York to Isadore and Augusta Miller and was the second of three children
• His parents were Polish-Jewish immigrants
• They were a very wealthy family due to the father's women's clothing store however lost almost everything due to the Wall Street Crash of 1929
• Miller went to the University of Michigan where he first studied journalism but after writing his first play, 'No Villain,' he changed to English which he won the Avery Hopwood Award for
• After university, he married Mary Slattery and had two children, Jane and Robert
• He left Mary in 1956 and married Marilyn Monroe shortly after
• He created the film 'The Misfits' which started his wife but shortly after the premiere they were divorced
• He then married Inge Morath and had two children, Rebecca and Daniel
• Awards for his many plays include the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, a tony Award for best author and the New York Drama Critics Circe Award for 'Death Of A Salesman'
• He was also arrested for being in the Communist Party s had to go before the House Un-American Activists Committee and also later when he applied for a routine renewal of his passport so they took the opportunity to subpoena (the presence of a witness to testify) him so he had appear before the committee and was fined and put in prison for a short period
• Miller died due to of heart failure due to a battle with cancer but had a career spanning over seven decades