"Why I Wrote The Crucible"
Essay
By: Arthur Miller
Date: 1996
Source: Miller, Arthur. "Why I Wrote The Crucible." The New Yorker, October 21 and 28, 1996, 158–164.
About the Author: Playwright Arthur Miller (1915–) was born in New York. He worked numerous odd jobs from truck driving to singing for a radio show before he studied journalism and playwriting. During the 1940s he produced a series of popular radio plays. His Pulitzer Prize-winning Death of a Salesman (1949) is one of America's best known dramatic works. He was married to Marilyn Monroe from 1956 to 1961. In 1957, Miller was convicted for contempt of Congress because he refused to divulge names of associates who were suspected Communists to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), and he was blacklisted from Hollywood. The conviction was eventually reversed. Miller has also written screenplays, essays, and...
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