Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller, an American playwright and essayist, has been called one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th Century. A prominent figure in American theatre and cinema for almost 100 years, he wrote scores of plays that are produced and studied widely around the world, including The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, All My Sons, After the Fall, The Price, Incident at Vichy, The American Clock, and his best-known work, Death of a Salesman, for which he received the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His screenplays include The Misfits, Everybody Wins and the 1995 film adaptation of The Crucible. Miller’s life was often full of controversy and the media spotlight, most famously when he refused to give evidence against others to the House Un-American Activities Committee and during his marriage to Marilyn Monroe. He died in 2005, at age 89.