Arthur Miller

Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright and essayist in twentieth-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons of 1947, Death of a Salesman of 1949, The Crucible of 1953 and A View from the Bridge of 1955. He also wrote several screenplays, including The Misfits of 1961. He was born in 1915 and died in 2005. His play Death of a Salesman is considered one of the best American plays of the twentieth century. He was often in the public eye, particularly from the late 1940s to the early 1960s, when he received a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee and married Marilyn Monroe.