Biography
Arthur Miller (1915-2005), born in Harlem, New York, was the central playwright of mid-twentieth-century American theatre and one of the supreme voices of postwar moral drama. His breakthrough came with All My Sons (1947); Death of a Salesman (1949) established him as the defining dramatist of American disillusionment and won the Pulitzer Prize. The Crucible (1953), using the Salem witch trials as allegory for McCarthyism, became a permanent fixture of the English-language repertoire. Miller's other major plays include A View from the Bridge (1955) and After the Fall (1964), the latter reflecting his troubled marriage to Marilyn Monroe. He was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1956 and refused to name names. Miller continued writing into his old age; plays like Broken Glass (1994) addressed history and memory with undiminished moral urgency. He died in Roxbury, Connecticut in 2005.
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