Arthur Miller was a twentieth-century American playwright,
essayist, and screenwriter. All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, and
A View from the Bridge are among his most popular plays. The Pulitzer Prize
winner was married to Hollywood star Marilyn Monroe. 

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Who was Arthur Miller? 

Arthur Miller was born in 1915 in Manhattan to Jewish immigrant
parents. After their local manufacturing business failed in 1928, the family
relocated to Brooklyn. Miller was profoundly influenced by the social and
economic deterioration of the Great Depression and his father’s frustration as
a result of business failures. 

Miller worked a variety of jobs after completing high school to
save money for college. He enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1934 and
spent the next four years studying literature and developing a number of
successful plays.

Arthur Miller’s personal life

Miller married Mary Grace Slattery in 1940. The couple was blessed
with two children: Jane and Robert. Miller was spared from serving in the
military during WWII due to a high school football kneecap injury.

Miller divorced his first wife and married film star Marilyn
Monroe in June 1956. However, the couple soon started having irreconcilable
differences, owing to Monroe’s deteriorating mental health and drug addiction. 

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Miller and Monroe got divorced after five years of marriage in
1961, just nineteen months before Monroe’s tragic death. 

Miller married photographer Inge Morath
in February 1962. They had two children Rebecca and Daniel. They remained
married until Morath’s death in 2002.

Arthur Miller’s
career

His first play, The Man Who Had All the Luck, premiered in 1944 to
lukewarm reviews. Miller published his first novel, FOCUS, in 1945 and had his
first Broadway play two years later. All My Sons, a play about a manufacturer
who sells defective parts to the military to save his company, was an instant
hit. All My Sons, dealing with moral dilemmas in the face of desperation,
appealed to a nation that had recently experienced both war and economic
downfall.

Miller rose to prominence with his most famous and well-regarded
work, Death of a Salesman. The play dealt with both hopelessness and paternal
responsibility, chronicling a failed entrepreneur as he tries to recollect and
reconstruct his life. It has been numbered on
the short list of finest American plays of the 20th century.

Miller was a recipient of numerous prestigious accolades including
The Pulitzer Prize For Drama,  St. Louis Literary Award, Premium Imperiale
prize, Prince of Asturias Award, Jerusalem Prize and the Dorothy and Lillian
Gish Prize. 

Miller passed away at the age of 89 on February 11, 2005.