Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller was born in Harlem in 1915 into a Jewish family whose coat business was ruined by the crisis of 1929. He worked for two years in an auto parts warehouse to pay for the University of Michigan, where he twice received the Hopwood Award. Summoned in 1956 before the House Un-American Activities Committee, he refused to name names and was convicted of contempt, a judgment overturned on appeal. Married from 1956 to 1961 to Marilyn Monroe, then to Inge Morath, he died at home in Roxbury, Connecticut, in 2005.

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• TheatreDeath of a SalesmanArthur Miller · 1949Literature