Apr 08 2008
He lived through the depression, his dad was a clothing manufacturer. They were not to bad before the depression but afterward they were hurt. Arthur Miller didn’t go to college right out of high school he had to save up some money so he could afford to go. He didn’t start off majoring in English he started majoring in journalism but when his first play was a hit he switched to English.
At one point he was married to Marilyn Monroe!!
He died in February of 2005
offered great entertainment mixed with pungent social criticism
Miller was widely acknowledged as the country’s most important playwright
“A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong — if there is any root to life — because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don’t live in the same place for very long,” Miller said in a 1988 interview.
career as a writer spanned over seven decades, and at the time of his death in 2005, Miller was considered to be one of the greatest dramatists of the twentieth century
Works Cited
The Crucible. RSC, 2006.
“American Playwright Arthur Miller Dies At 89.” NPR. 2008. 8 Apr. 2008
<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4495305>.
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