Miller, Arthur
Miller, Arthur( 1915–2005),New York author, graduated from the University of Michigan (1938), where he began to write plays. His first, Man Who Had All the Luck (1944), treats an auto mechanic whose success in marriage and business is the result of work and care, and was followed by a nondramatic work of reportage, Situation Normal (1944), about military life at army bases, and Focus (1945), a novel about anti-Semitism. He returned to the drama with All My Sons (1947), about a manufacturer whose defective airplane parts cause the death of his son and other aviators in wartime. His most impressive play is Death of a Salesman (1949, Pulitzer Prize), fusing realism and symbolism in reviewing the tragic life of a salesman victimized by his own false values and those of modern America. It was followed by The Crucible (1953), treating the Salem witch trials of 1692 as a parable for America during the era of...
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