Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller was one of the greatest American playwrights of the 20th century, famous for writing powerful dramas about society, morality, and the human condition. Arthur Asher Miller was born in New York (1915-2005) and was a playwright, essayist, and screenwriter by profession.

Arthur Miller wrote some of the most important plays in modern theatre, namely Death of a Salesman (1949), considered one of the greatest plays ever written in English. It won the Pulitzer Prize and is considered a masterpiece of American drama. Other works include The Crucible (1953), based on the Salem witch trials, but actually a criticism of political persecution (McCarthyism), All My Sons (1947), his first major success, about moral responsibility after World War II, and A View from the Bridge (1955), a tragic story about family, love, and betrayal.

He was married to the famous actress, Marilyn Monroe in the 1950s and was also involved in political controversy during the McCarthy era, when he refused to name suspected communists. Miller’s plays often explore the American dream and its failures, guilt and responsibility, conflict between individual and society as well as moral choices and consequences. He combined social criticism with deep psychological characters. In fact, his works are still studied in schools and performed worldwide.