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Arthur Asher Miller was born on October 17th in 1915 to Isidore and Augusta Miller. He was born in Harlem, New York -
The Great Depression was a time in which the world fell into a great economic downfall causing many family and worker to lose housing and jobs. Isidore Miller the father of Arthur was effected by this heavily causing him to lose is business.
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Arthur attends the University Of Michigan after being rejected twice before for poor grades during high school. -
Arthur Miller receives the Hopwood Award from his first play No Villain and used the prize money to help pay his tuition. -
Wins another award for his play Honors At Dawn, and his third entry into the Hopwood Committee The Great Disobedience receives a second place recognition -
Miller graduates from college and finds work writing radio plays for the Federal Theater Project in New York City. Two years later, the U.S. government cuts the Depression-era program after critics assail its leftist political leanings. An unemployed Miller accepts federal assistance. -
Miller at this time was still writing plays but tension was rising between him and his older brother Kermit who dropped out of college to help his fathers soon to be failed business. Arthur was soon exempted from the draft due to a minor football related knee injury.
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Arthur Millie gets married to his first wife named Mary Grace Slattery. During this time Miller has trouble finding support for his plays. While his wife helps support the two of them. They moved to Brooklyn during this time. -
Arthur Miller gets a screenwriter job for a war film, "The Story of G.I Joe" -
Broadway premiere of Miller's play The Man Who Had All the Luck, which wins the Theater Guild National Award. The play fails to connect with the audience and ends after just four performances, even with the award. Feeling discouraged by his continuous setbacks in New York, Miller wonders perhaps giving up on writing. Jane, a daughter, is born to Mary Slattery in the same year. -
Based on a true story of a man who supplied defective machine parts to the American military during World War II, Miller's play All My Sons becomes an immediate smash. Ranked among the top ten plays of 1947, the play receives two Tony Awards, the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. Robert, Miller's son, is born the same year. -
The Cold War is a time in which the American Government and the USSR was in a time of tense times where they would have many proxy wars and the closest the world got to the third world war at the time. During this time in America many people were sentenced to death over being suspected to be a communist spy.
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Millers opens big onto Broadway with his next project which earns him Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, and another Tony. -
In 1951, Arthur Miller was found out to be having an affair with American model and actress Marilyn Monroe. -
A play on Broadway by Miller setting around the Salem Witch Trails to provide an allegory for the ongoing persecution of communist. -
Miller divorces his first wife and marries Marilyn Monroe, Arthur is pulled in secret due to being a suspected to be a communist and told to give up the others. -
Judges find Miller guilty of contempt of Congress for refusing to name his alleged communist allies during his old HUAC testimony. -
Millers Conviction of contempt is overturned after a long trail. -
A movie written by Miller staring his wife at the time Monroe, after the movie the two divorce. Monroe 19 months later would sadly pass away from a drug overdose -
Arthur Miller marries his third wife a photographer that he meet at the set of The Misfits Inge Morath and in September Morath gives birth to their daughter Rebecca. -
Miller is chosen to serve as president of PEN, a global literary association that supports free speech and opposes author persecution and censorship. -
Miller has a son named Daniel that is born with Down Syndrome and is disowned by them and sends him to a institution -
After being married for 40 years, Inge Morath sadly passes away of lymphatic cancer at the age of 78 -
At the age of 89, Arthur Miller dies of heart failure in his home in Roxbury, Connecticut. -