Arthur Miller (US playwright and essayist)
- Arthur Asher Miller
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- Miller, Arthur
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- Male
- Date of birth
- 1915-10-17
- Place of birth
- New York
- Date of death
- 2005-02-10
- Place of death
- Connecticut
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Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), and A View from the Bridge (1955). He wrote several screenplays, including The Misfits (1961). The drama Death of a Salesman is considered one of the best American plays of the 20th century.
Miller was often in the public eye, particularly during the late 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s. During this time, he received a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and married Marilyn Monroe. In 1980, he received the St. Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates. He received the Praemium Imperiale prize in 2001, the Prince of Asturias Award in 2002, and the Jerusalem Prize in 2003, and the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize in 1999.
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American playwright, essayist, and figure in twentieth-century American theater. He died in Roxbury, Connecticut.
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Editions
Name | Format | ISBN | Release Date |
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Der Tod des Handlungsreisenden | Paperback | 3-596-27081-2 | 1984-09 |
Nicht gesellschaftsfähig (linen back edition) | Paperback | ? | 1961-05 |
Spiel um Zeit: Ein Fernsehfilm | Paperback | 3-596-27061-8 | 1981-03 |
The Crucible | Paperback | 0-553-20657-5 | 1981-10 |
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