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Arthur Miller (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

Biography

Arthur Miller, son of Jewish immigrants, was born on October 17, 1915, in New York City. His father, Isadore, born in Austria, ran a prosperous garment business, and his mother, Augusta Barnett Miller, was a schoolteacher. When his father's firm began to fail in 1928, the Millers moved to a suburban area of Brooklyn, an area that would be the model for the settings of All My Sons (1947) and Death of a Salesman (1949). From his mother, Miller inherited a strong sense of mysticism that would inform much of his later work. As a young boy, Miller resented...

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