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Arthur Asher Miller born in October 17, 1915 in New York City, NY to Jewish immigrant parents. He was the second of three children.
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Miller attended a public school like any tipical kid he later on graduated high school
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During this period of time, Millers family was affected tremendously. His family lost everything and his father went bankrupt. Miller was influenced by the Depression and his way of thinking. -
By 1929, the family had moved to Brooklyn after his father’s business was lost and the family faced financial hardships. Witnessing the societal decay of the Depression and his father’s desperation due to business failures had an enormous effect on Miller. -
After graduating from high school, he started working a few jobs to save up money for college. In 1934 he enrolled in University of Michigan. -
While studying at University of Michigan he spent much of the next four years learning to write and worked on a number of well-received plays. He wrote for the student paper and completed his first play, No Villain, for which he won one of the schools awards. Later on he earned his bachelor of arts degree.
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Arthur Miller's play, All My Sons is a play about a family dealing with the loss of a son and a hidden family shame after World War II. Miller’s inspiration for All My Sons stemmed from a true-life story told to him by stepmother as well as his personal experiences in life. -
Miller married his college sweetheart Mary Grace Slattery. -
His first Broadway pop up, The Man Who Had All the Luck was produced in 1944. Although it lasted only four performances, the play nevertheless won a Theater Guild award. -
Miller and Slattery had their first born child Jane Ellen Miler. -
Miller and Slattery had their second child named Robert. -
The production of The Crucible won the 1953 Tony Award for Best Play. A year later a new production succeeded and the play became a classic. -
Miller based The Crucible on the witchcraft trials in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692–93, a series of persecutions that he considered an echo of the McCarthyism of his day, when investigations of alleged subversive activities were widespread (I read this book in english ): ) -
In 1956, Miller divorced his first wife, Mary Slattery, his former college sweetheart. He later married actress and Hollywood star Marilyn Monroe. -
The same year he married MM, Miller was called before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and convicted of contempt of Congress for not cooperating. Miller refused to comply with the committee's demands to "out" people who had been active in certain political activities and was thus cited in contempt of Congress. Miller was fined 500, sentenced to 30 days in prison. -
In 1958, his conviction was overturned. -
Well pretty self explanitory they divorced -
In 1962, Miller married. he lived happily for the next forty years, both of them with important careers that they occasionally merged. -
Monroe died the following year. -
Miller and Morath's first child, Rebecca, was born in September 1962.
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The couple's second child Daniel was born in 1966 with Down syndrome and was institutionalized shortly after his birth.
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He was honored with the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award for a Master American Dramatist in 1998 -
In 2001 Miller received the Japan Art Association’s Praemium Imperiale prize for theatre/film. -
In 2002, Miller's third wife, Morath, died -
Miller died of heart failure at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, surrounded by family and friends. He was 89 years old.