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Category:	Modern Theatre Modern Literature Cinema
Name:	Arthur Miller
Birth Year:	1915
Death Year:	2005
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Biography, Lectures, and Research Links:	Biography Blog Arthur Miller SEARCH NOW: by title by author American playwright. He is most famous for the plays Death of a Salesman and The Crucible. Miller was born in 1915 in New York City. His first play Honors at Dawn was produced at the University of Michigan. He won an Avery Hopwood Award in 1936. In 1944 his The Man Who Had All the Luck won a prize offered by New York City's Theatre Guild. Miller produced and published Death of a Salesman in 1949. In it Miller condemned the American ideal of prosperity on the grounds that few can pursue it without making dangerous moral compromises. The play won the Pulitzer Prize. In 1953 he produced and published The Crucible in which he wrote of the witch-hunts in colonial Salem, Mass., and implied a parallel with the congressional investigations into subversion then in progress. A View from the Bridge (1955) questioned the reasonableness of U.S. immigration laws. In 1956 Miller appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee where he refused to inform on others. In 1958 he was prosecuted and convicted for contempt of congress. He published Collect Plays the same year. In 1958 his conviction is overturned by a higher court. After the Fall (1964), which includes a thinly disguised portrayal of Miller's unhappy marriage to film actress Marilyn Monroe, offers a second, candid consideration of the congressional investigations in which Miller had been personally involved. Two one-act plays, Incident at Vichy (1964) and The Price (1968), deal with the universality of human responsibility and the guilt that often accompanies survival and success. His novel Focus (1945) is an ironic tale of anti-semitism. The screenplay for the Misfits (1961) is only one of several he has written. In 1969 he wrote In Russia, a travel piece with illustrations by his wife, the photographer Inge Morath. Chinese Encounters (1979) is another traveler's tale, while Salesman in Beijing (1984) is an account of the production of his play in Chinese. The Theater Essays of Arthur Miller were collected in 1978. In 1987, Miller published Timebends: A Life, his autobiography. [Adapted from Bohemian Link] The Great Books: Arthur Miller Please browse our Amazon list of titles about Arthur Miller. For rare and hard to find works we recommend our Alibris list of titles about Arthur Miller. Post Comments, Questions or Suggestions! This database is maintained by Malaspina Great Books.
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This web page is part of a biographical database on Great Ideas. These are living ideas that have shaped, defined and directed world culture for over 2,500 years. By definition the Great Ideas are radical. As such they are sometimes misread, or distorted by popular simplifications. Understanding a Great Idea demands personal engagement. Our selection of Great Ideas is drawn from literature and philosophy, science, art, music, theatre, and cinema. We also include biographies of pivotal historical and religious figures, as well as contributions from women and other historically under-represented minorities. The result is an integrated multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary database built upon the framework of the always controversial Great Books Core List published in 1940 by the late Great Books Pioneer Mortimer Adler (1902-2001). Most of the works on that list are available in the 60 volume Great Books of the Western World.