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 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Winner of the National Book Award Medal for Distinguished
Contribution to American Letters
"By common consent, this is one of the finest dramas in the whole
range of the American theater." —Brooks Atkinson, The New York
Times
"So simple, central, and terrible that the run of playwrights would
neither care nor dare to attempt it." —Time
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