Dec 22, 2009

Death of a Salesman | Overview

The Life and Work of Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller was born October 17, 1915, in New York City, to Isadore and Augusta Barnett Miller. He grew up with an older brother and a younger sister and received his earliest schooling in Harlem in the 1920s. His middle-class family fell upon difficult times when his father’s clothing business experienced devastating economic damage, forcing the family to move to Brooklyn shortly before the Depression.

At Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, Miller was more an athlete than a scholar; an average student, he did not read much...