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'''Arthur Asher Miller''' (], ] – ], ]) was an American playwright, essayist, and author. He was a prominent figure in ] and ] for over 60 years, writing a wide variety of ]. Miller's best known works were '']'' and '']'', which are still widely studied and performed. He was also known for his short-lived marriage to ]. '''Arthur Asher Miller''' (], ] – ], ]) was an American playwright, essayist, and author. He was a prominent figure in ] and ] for over 60 years, writing a wide variety of ]. Miller's best known works were '']'' and '']'', which are still widely studied and performed. He was also known for his short-lived marriage to ].
==Biography== ==Biography==
⚫ In ], the 89 year old Miller announced that he had been living with 4 year olds since 2002, and they were planning to marry. Within hours of his death, Barley had moved out of his house on orders of Miller's daughter Rebecca, who disapproved of the relationship.
Miller was born to a moderately wealthy ]-]ish immigrants in ]. His, father, Isadore, was an illiterate but successful women's clothing manufacturer; his mother, Augusta, was a housewife and schoolteacher. He had two older siblings: Kermit, and Joan, who became an actress and appeared in her brother's works. Miller remembered he and his siblings being driven to school by a chauffer. When Isadore was ruined in the ], the family was forced to move to ]. Eventually, Isadore rebounded as a hat manufacturer.

Miller attended P.S. 24 in Harlem from ] to ], and saw his first play (a ]) in ] at the Schubert Theatre. At Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, Miller was a talented athlete and mediocre student. He was rejected by both the ] and ]. After graduating, he read works of ] and ] and worked at an auto parts warehouse. There Miller experienced a great deal of ], which would influence his later works (especially '']''). Miller put $13 of every $15 paycheck he earned into a college fund and reapplied to University of Michigan, where he was accepted in ].

At Michigan, Miller studied journalism and drama, becoming paticluarly interested in ] and the dramas of ]. During ] in ] (his sophomore year), he wrote his first work, '']'' (reportedly because of a contest offering a $250 prize, which he won). The play centered around a ] and the main character's inability to express himself, and won an ], the first of two he received. Miller retained strong ties to his alma mater throughout the rest of his life, establishing the Arthur Miller Award in 1985 and Arthur Miller Award for Dramatic Writing in 1999, and lending his name to the Arthur Miller Theatre in the forthcoming Walgreen Drama Center. The University also honored its distinguished alumnus with an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree in 1956 and several tributes and symposia on his frequent returns to Ann Arbor.

In ], Miller received his ] in English. In ], he married his college sweetheart, Mary Slattery (with whom he had two children, Jane and Robert). He was exempted from military service during ] because of a ] injury.

Miller's ] play '']'' won the ] and three ], as well as the ]. It was the first play ever to win all three. His next play, '']'', opened on ] on ], ]. In ], he divorced his wife. In June of the same year, he appeared before the ], having been named by ] as having attended ] meetings, and at the end of the month (], he married ], whom he had met eight years earlier through Kazan. Monroe ] for the marriage.

On ], ], Miller was found guilty of ] for refusing to reveal the names of members of a literary circle suspected of Communist affiliation. His conviction was reversed ], ], by the U.S. Court of Appeals. The same year, he published ''Collected Plays''.

On ], ], Monroe was granted a ] divorce two months after Miller left her for ], whom he married on ], ]. They had met when she and other photographers from the ] agency documented the making of ''The Misfits''. They had two children, Rebecca, born that September, and Daniel. According to biographer ], Daniel was born with ]. Miller placed Daniel in an institution in ], and never visited him. Miller doesn't mention Daniel in ''Timebends'', his ] autobiography, and the issue was ignored in the '']'' obituary of ], ] (though it was reported in the '']'' and elsewhere). ] is a screenwriter, actor and director.

Miller was one of the original founders of ]'s Writers in Prison committee, and in ] was elected the organization's president, a position he held for four years , .

In ], Miller visited ] and was honored at the American embassy. After his traveling companion ] was thrown out of the country for discussing torture, Miller left in support.

On ], ], Inge Morath died. On ] the same year, Miller was awarded Spain's ] as "the undisputed master of modern drama". Previous winners include ], ] and ].

⚫ In ], the 89 year old Miller announced that he had been living with 34 year old artist ] since 2002, and they were planning to marry. Within hours of his death, Barley had moved out of his house on orders of Miller's daughter Rebecca, who disapproved of the relationship.


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Arthur Miller in his later years

Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist, and author. He was a prominent figure in American literature and cinema for over 60 years, writing a wide variety of plays. Miller's best known works were The Crucible and Death of a Salesman, which are still widely studied and performed. He was also known for his short-lived marriage to Marilyn Monroe.

Biography

In December 2004, the 89 year old Miller announced that he had been living with 4 year olds since 2002, and they were planning to marry. Within hours of his death, Barley had moved out of his house on orders of Miller's daughter Rebecca, who disapproved of the relationship.

See also Hollywood Ten.

Works

Plays

Screenplays

Other works

  • (1944)Situation Normal
  • (1945) Focus
  • Fame
  • The Reason Why
  • Homely Girl, a Life: And Other Stories
  • The Theater Essays of Arthur Miller
  • Timebends: A Life

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