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Arthur Miller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Miller retained strong ties to his alma mater throughout the rest of his life, establishing the Arthur Miller Award in 1985 and Arthur Miller Award for Dramatic Writing in 1999, and lending his name to the Arthur Miller Theatre in the forthcoming year. Miller was one of the original founders of International PEN's Writers in Prison committee, and in 1965 was elected the organization's president, a position he held for four years [2], [3]. Miller and Morath had two children, Daniel and Rebecca, and were married 40 years until her death in 2002. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arthur_Miller   (1037 words)

Arthur Miller (b. 1915) Miller has said that the theme of the play is "the handing over of conscience to the state." The question is not entirely a remote one, as almost any major newspaper or television exposé can make the issue clear to today's students. Miller, possibly as a result of the play, was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1956 on the pretense of issuing him a passport. Miller's comments in conversations and interviews are frequently more enlightening than any other playwright in our history because he is articulate as well as theoretically sophisticated. college.hmco.com /english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/miller.html   (1116 words)

Arthur Miller--Biography Arthur Asher Miller, the son of a women's clothing company owner, was born in 1915 in New York City. In 1956 and 1957, Miller was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee and was convicted of contempt of Congress for his refusal to identify writers believed to hold Communist sympathies. In a note to the play, Miller writes, "A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence." Dealing as it did with highly charged current events, the play received unfavorable reviews and Miller was cold-shouldered by many colleagues. www.neh.gov /whoweare/miller/biography.html   (692 words)

GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Arthur Miller Arthur Miller is one of the leading American playwrights of the twentieth century and a celebrity of nearly equal notoriety. Miller followed Death of a Salesman with his most politically significant work, The Crucible (1953), a tale of the Salem witch trials that contains obvious analogies to the McCarthy anti-Communist hearings of Miller's contemporary society. Miller refused to name people he allegedly saw at a Communist writers' meeting a decade before and was convicted of contempt. www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/authors/about_arthur_miller.html   (562 words)

USATODAY.com - Arthur Miller captured the American century Miller was married three times — most famously to Monroe, but most enduringly to photographer Inge Morath, his wife and sometime creative partner for 40 years, until her death in 2002. Miller's plays are avidly produced abroad, and have also enjoyed success in places as far-reaching as China, where the writer famously directed his own work. Miller wrote plays that everyone, whatever their stature or educational background, could relate to. www.usatoday.com /life/people/2005-02-11-arthur-miller-obit_x.htm   (815 words)

Miller, Arthur. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 Miller’s tumultuous life with his second wife, Marilyn Monroe, to whom he was married from 1956 to 1961, is fictionalized in his After the Fall (1964), and a barely disguised version of the glamorous but troubled actress also appears in his last play, Finishing the Picture (2004). Miller’s plays are, above all, concerned with morality as they reflect the individual’s response to the manifold pressures exerted by the forces of family and society. Miller’s masterpiece, Death of a Salesman (1949; Pulitzer Prize), is the story of a salesman betrayed by his own hollow values and those of American society. www.bartleby.com /65/mi/Miller-A.html   (475 words)

CurtainUp's Arthur Miller Backgrounder Arthur Miller has lived long enough to become one of the theater world's living legends, the sort of committed citizen playwright for whom the theater is a vehicle for enlightenment and social consciousness raising. Miller was born in Manhattan ((the lower edge of Harlem), the son of a comfortably middle class manufacturer of ladies' coats and a schoolteacher mother. Miller is the playwright to whom the Signature Theater is dedicating its 1997-98 season. www.curtainup.com /miller.html   (2079 words)

Arthur Miller Biography and important facts Arthur Miller, born 1915, has been the dean of American playwrights since the opening of Death of a Salesman in 1949. Miller, the son of a Jewish immigrant, was born and raised during this early years in Harlem section of Manhatten and later in Brooklyn after his father's business failed. Miller wrote radio plays, screenplays, articles, stories, and a novel in the eight years it took him to write a successful Broadway play. theliterarylink.com /miller.html   (597 words)

BBC NEWS Entertainment Arts Obituary: Arthur Miller Arthur Miller's legacy is such that, on any one day, his work is being performed somewhere in the world. Miller's best-known character, Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, the little man, destroyed by the pressures of modern life, stunned the audience at the play's Philadelphia premiere in 1949. Following their breakup in 1961, Miller married the renowned photographer Inge Morath, whom he met on the set of the film The Misfits, which he wrote and which starred Monroe. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/233032.stm   (587 words)

Playwright Arthur Miller dies at age 89 - THEATER - MSNBC.com Miller’s producer, David Reichenthal, said as recently as this week, he and Miller were working on a London revival of “Death of a Salesman.” It will go on as planned in May, he said. Miller’s success, so overwhelming in the 1940s and ’50s, seemed to be on the wane during the next two decades. Miller said at the time he opted for the London opening to avoid the “dark defeatism” of the New York theater scene. www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6953165   (1452 words)

BBC NEWS Entertainment Arts American playwright Miller dies Playwright Arthur Miller, the creator of The Crucible and Death of a Salesman, has died at the age of 89. Miller died on Thursday evening, having battled with cancer, pneumonia and a heart condition. New York-born Miller was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Death of a Salesman in 1949 at the age of just 33. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/4258065.stm   (424 words)

Swans Commentary: Arthur Miller, by Louis Proyect - lproy23 Arthur Miller was a powerful force in American theater and politics. Miller and Kazan had once sought to make a film called "The Hook" which was set on the Brooklyn waterfront and that had a militant trade unionist hero struggling with mobsters in the dockworkers union. Miller went on to write his own waterfront play that was in effect an answer to "On the Waterfront". www.swans.com /library/art11/lproy23.html   (1645 words)

Featured Author: Arthur Miller Miller's conviction of contempt of Congress was reversed after the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia held unanimously that the House Committee on Un-American activities had not sufficiently warned the playwright of the risk of contempt if he refused to answer its questions. Miller was found guilty of contempt of Congress after refusing to answer questions at a hearing before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Miller seems to have begun with his themes and conceits, then worked backward to fashion (and diminish) his characters to fit the predetermined pattern. partners.nytimes.com /books/00/11/12/specials/miller.html   (3683 words)

ABC News: Playwright Arthur Miller Dies Arthur Miller, author of famous plays such as "The Crucible" and "Death of a Salesman", has died at age 89. Miller was soon bent on studying drama in Michigan, where he had found a professor he admired, but his high school grades were awful, and his family had no money to spare. Miller's cannon of theatrical masterpieces includes "The Crucible" and "A View From the Bridge," but he'll also be remembered for standing up to the House Committee on Un-American Activities in the McCarthy era, and for lighting up gossip pages with his five-year marriage to Marilyn Monroe. abcnews.go.com /Entertainment/Health/story?id=491164&page=1   (449 words)

American Masters . Arthur Miller PBS Arthur Miller was born in Manhattan in 1915 to Jewish immigrant parents. Within three years, Miller was called before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and convicted of contempt of Congress for not cooperating. It was not until the 1991 productions of his "The Ride Down Mount Morgan" and "The Last Yankee" that Miller's career began to see a resurgence. www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/miller_a.html   (741 words)

The Moral of Arthur Miller Arthur Miller's life is the great American morality play of the twentieth century. When Miller died on February 10 at age eighty-nine, the media raced to tell the playwright's life as a story in which American hypocrisy and evil were overcome by the force of one man's talent and unyielding honesty. Miller's plays were filled with resentment, invariably finding society itself to blame for any flaw in the human condition. www.weeklystandard.com /Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/258bqlwx.asp   (585 words)

OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts Miller's problem, to paraphrase Willy Loman, the hero of "Death of a Salesman," was not that he wasn't liked, but that he wasn't well liked. The irony is that the smartest critics of Miller's own generation, virtually all of whom shared his left-wing views, held his plays in a different kind of contempt. A half-century after it opened on Broadway, "Death of a Salesman" continues to be revived regularly, while "The Crucible," in which Miller likened the Salem witch trials to the anti-Communist "witch hunts" of the '50s, has sold seven million copies in paperback since its 1953 premiere. www.opinionjournal.com /la?id=110006294   (804 words)

Guardian Unlimited Arts Arts news Death of a playwright: legend Arthur Miller dies aged 89 Image: AP Arthur Miller, a giant of American drama for nearly 60 years, is dead. Miller married photographer Inge Morath in 1962 and was with her until her death in 2002. Miller did not, steadfastly refusing to provide the names of friends with communist sympathies. arts.guardian.co.uk /news/story/0,11711,1411098,00.html   (565 words)

village voice > theater > by Michael Feingold These were all artists with whose work, one would have imagined, Arthur Miller's sensibility would find little common ground. That was Miller's essence, and it made him a central figure in American life whether you admired a given play or a given action of his, or not—perhaps even more if you did not. It might be said that Miller won these and many similar skirmishes by the simple—and innately artistic—device of declining to play by any rules but his own. www.villagevoice.com /theater/0507,feingold,61083,11.html   (790 words)

ARTHUR MILLER: 1915-2005 / Playwright defined a nation's conscience / Author of 'Death of a Salesman,' 'The Crucible' won every major prize in his field As Isidore Miller struggled to save his company, the family moved from its spacious uptown Manhattan apartment to a cramped, flimsy house in the outlying Gravesend section of Brooklyn-- a home not unlike that of the Loman family in "Salesman'' (the character of Willy Loman was partly based on one of Arthur Miller's uncles). Arthur Miller died Thursday night at his home in Roxbury, Conn., of congestive heart failure at the age of 89. Miller, who professed to be puzzled by criticisms that he had exploited Monroe's memory, staunchly denied that the play chronicled their marriage. www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/12/MNG8ABA7RG1.DTL   (2001 words)

Playwright of Broken American Dreams (washingtonpost.com) Arthur Miller was born Oct. 17, 1915, in New York. Transcript: Arena Stage Artistic Director Molly Smith on Arthur Miller Miller, described by novelist William Styron as resembling a "Jewish Abraham Lincoln," was an activist all his life, appearing before the U.S. Senate last year to back legislation that would allow playwrights to jointly negotiate a standard contract for their work without violating antitrust laws. www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A16676-2005Feb11.html   (1928 words)

Drama: Arthur Miller Another interview with Arthur Miller on the fiftieth anniversary on how he first envisioned Willy, why he made him a salesman, and why he thinks the play is so universal. Raised in New York City, the son of a school teacher and clothing manufacturer, Arthur Miller studied playwriting at the University of Michigan. Miller is also the author of an autobiography, Timebends (1987), and a collection of stories, Homely Girl, A Life: And Other Stories (1995). www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/drama/miller.htm   (370 words)

Online NewsHour: Arthur Miller Discusses His Life and Work -- February 10, 1999 ARTHUR MILLER: Columbia Pictures made a film called "The Life of a Salesman" which they wanted to show with the "Death of a Salesman." It was short, the brunt of which was that "the life of a salesman" was. ARTHUR MILLER: Originally, of course, when we first performed and people didn't know what to expect, they didn't applaud at all for a good three, four minutes. ARTHUR MILLER: If I could only park my car there. www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june99/miller_2-10.html   (1881 words)

Arthur Miller at LiteratureClassics.com -- essays, resources The Poetics of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman-- After the play has accessed all the possilble levels of interpretation, it is Arthur Miller’s artistry as a dramatist that renders 'Death of a Salesman' in so edearing a light. Miller is best known for the play DEATH OF A SALESMAN (1949), or on the other hand, for his marriage to the actress Marilyn Monroe. Miller's plays continued the realistic tradition that began in the United States in the period between the two world wars. www.literatureclassics.com /authors/Miller   (1065 words)

Arthur Miller introduction The plays and essays testify to a persistent artistic dilemma; Arthur Miller's effort to unify social and psychological perspectives has been the source of his accomplishments and his failures as a dramatist. Almost everyone believes that Arthur Miller deserves the title of "social dramatist"; apparently the only question is whether to call him a Marxist or a humanist. It is quite understandable that Miller should be regarded as a writer with a message, whether affirmative or negative, humane or socialistic. www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/50s/miller-intro.html   (813 words)

Washington Speakers Bureau: Arthur Miller Arthur Miller’s speeches cover a wide range of subjects and build on his academic specialties at Harvard and his private practice work. Miller manages the rules of engagement and his Socratic dialogue approach is designed to rivet the attention of the audience and open their minds at the same time. Exploring All Sides: Miller’s style is to create an environment where panelists freely interact with him, one-another and the audience to explore all sides of the issues at hand with him molding the discussion and playing traffic cop to keep the discussion on point. www.washingtonspeakers.com /speakers/Speaker.cfm?SpeakerID=3188   (645 words)

Arthur Miller Arthur Miller was born in New York City in nineteen fifteen. Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe ended their marriage soon after the movie was completed. A critic once described Miller as an activist for the common man. He demonstrates this well in one of his most famous plays, “Death of a Salesman.” The main character is a man whose dreams of success in business have died. www.voanews.com /specialenglish/Archive/a-2005-03-05-2-1.cfm   (1309 words)

A World in Which Everything Hurts Miller's solution for shedding this mantle of otherness is for Jews to abandon their ghettos and, presumably, their traditions: Finkelstein fights to move his family into an all-Christian neighborhood; Leduc discovers that his distrust of all gentiles is unfounded; Hyman marries a non-Jew. Through Finkelstein's stream of consciousness, Miller is telling his readers that the fatal mistake of Jews throughout history has been their repeated willingness to assume the role assigned to them by antisemitic societies, allowing themselves to be transformed from victims into partners in the crimes of the larger society. Miller's world was infused with a certain type of Jewishness, but whatever form it took, he did not view himself as a member of an ancient religious community. www.forward.com /main/article.php?ref=eden20040728914   (3073 words)

American Literature Web Resources: Arthur Miller Rebecca Miller, Arthur Miller and Inge Morath's daughter was born. 1915 Born on October 17 as Arthur Asher Miller in New York, New York to Isidore and Augusta Miller. Miller was found guilty of contempty by Congress for refusing to reveal names of a literacy circle suspected of Communist affiliations on June 1. www.millikin.edu /aci/crow/chronology/millerbio.html   (444 words)

University of Michigan Arthur Miller expressed his genius in an exquisite ability to communicate the beauty and the sadness of ordinary people and everyday life. As part of that event, Miller regaled an audience about the challenges and rewards of being a playwright during the "Arthur Miller Symposium" on the Ann Arbor campus. Miller's first Avery Hopwood Award was for "No Villain," written in 1936 during a week's spring vacation from classes. www.umich.edu /news/?Releases/2005/Feb05/r021105   (1259 words)

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