Arthur Miller (1915–2005) was born in New York City and
studied at the University of Michigan. His plays include All
My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The
Crucible (1953), A View from the Bridge and A Memory of Two Mondays
(1955), After the Fall (1963), Incident at Vichy (1964), The Price
(1968), The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972) and The
American Clock (1980). He also wrote two novels, Focus (1945), and
The Misfits, which was filmed in 1960, and the text for In Russia
(1969), Chinese Encounters (1979), and In the Country (1977), three
books of photographs by his wife, Inge Morath. His later work
included a memoir, Timebends (1987); the plays The Ride
Down Mt. Morgan (1991), The Last Yankee (1993), Broken Glass
(1994), and Mr. Peter's Connections (1999); Echoes Down the
Corridor: Collected Essays, 1944–2000; and On Politics and the
Art of Acting (2001). He twice won the New York Drama Critics
Circle Award, and in 1949 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Miller
was the recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 2001 Medal for
Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the Prince of
Asturias Award for Letters in 2002, and the Jerusalem Prize in
2003.
Christopher Bigsby is a professor of American Studies at the
University of East Anglia. He edited the Penguin Classics editions
of Miller's The Crucible, Death of a Salesman,
and All My Sons.
Winner of the National Book Award Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
Winner of the National Book Award Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
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