Playwright Biography
Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915 and studied at the University of Michigan. His plays include Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), A memory of Two Mondays (1955), After the Fall (1963), Incident at Vichy (1964), The Price (1968), and The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972). He has also written two novels, Focus (1945), and The Misfits, which was filmed in 1960, and the text for In Russia (1969) and In the Country, books of photographs by his wife, Inge Morath. The Theater Essays of Arthur Miller, edited by Robert A. Martin, was published in 1978. His most recent works are Timebends, a memoir, and Danger: Memory! Two Plays. He has twice won the New York Drama Critics Circle award, and in 1949 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
