Guild's National Award. During 1944 Miller toured army camps to collect background material for his 1945 screenplay, The Story of GI Joe. In 1947 Miller's Name play, All My Sons, was produced and won the New York Critics' Circle Award and two Tony Awards. As his success continued, Miller made the decision in 1948 to build a studio in Arthur Miller Roxbury, Connecticut, which would become his long time home. It was in this studio where he wrote the play that brought him international fame, Death of a By Jamie Kee Salesman. This play was considered a major achievement and has become a classic in American and world theatre. On February 10, 1949, the play premiered on Broadway at the Morosco Theatre. Miller's Death of a Salesman won a Tony Born on October 17, 1915, American playwright Award for best play, the New York City Drama Circle Critics' Award, and the Arthur Miller was a major figure in the American Pulitzer Prize for drama. This was the first time a play won all three of these major theatre and cinema. He was best known for his play, awards. Death of a Salesman, and for his marriage to actress Marilyn Monroe. Miller wrote other plays such as During the 1950s the United States Congress began investigating Communist The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, and All My influence in the arts. Miller compared these investigations to the witch trials of Sons, all of which are still performed and studied 1692, so he traveled to Salem, Massachusetts, to do research. From this research throughout the world. came Miller's play, The Crucible, which opened on Broadway on January 22, 1953, at the Beck Theatre. Even though the Broadway production was unsuccessful, the Miller was born in New York City to parents play later became one of his most successful plays, winning the Antoinette Perry Isidore and Augusta Miller who were Jewish Award. The Crucible was an allegory for the McCarthy era and the mass hysteria it immigrants from Poland. The family lived in produced. Soon after The Crucible was produced, the FBI took an interest in Miller, Manhattan until the 1929 Wall Street Crash when even to the point of denying him a passport to attend the play's premiere in London. Isidore, a ladies-wear manufacturer and shopkeeper, was financially ruined. The family moved to a In 1955 Miller's two short plays, A View From the Bridge and A Memory of small home in Brooklyn. Naturally this ordeal had a Two Mondays played on Broadway. The following year Miller left his wife Mary, strong impact on Miller. The Brooklyn home in Death of a Salesman was even and soon after, married the famous actress Marilyn Monroe. That same year Miller modeled after Miller's own small home following his father's financial ruin. was subpoenaed to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Despite risking her own career, Monroe appeared with Miller. Miller As a boy, Miller enjoyed playing sports and reading adventure stories. He gave a detailed account of his political activities, but when the committee asked attended Abraham Lincoln High School and graduated in 1932. Because of his him to reveal names of friends and colleagues in similar activities, Miller refused to father's financial ruin and the Great Depression, money was not available for comply. He was found guilty of contempt of Congress in May 1957, fined $500, college. Therefore after high school graduation, Miller worked menial jobs in order sentenced to thirty days in prison, blacklisted, and disallowed a U.S. passport. The to earn money for tuition. Eventually, Miller was able to attend the University of conviction, however, was overturned in 1958. For a time, Miller changed his name Michigan where he majored in journalism and became a reporter and night editor of to Jonathan Lovelett and published under this pen name for a short time. Eventually the Michigan Daily, the student paper. Miller later switched his major to English. he changed his name back to Arthur Miller. Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov was the influence for Miller's decision to become a writer. During this time in his life, Miller wrote his first work, No Villain, Once Miller's conviction was overturned, he began working on The Misfits, for which he later won the Avery Hopwood Award. which starred his wife Marilyn Monroe. Miller considered this time to be one of the lowest of his life. In 1961, shortly before the film's premiere, Miller and After Miller received his bachelor's degree in English in 1938, he returned to Monroe divorced. The following year, he married photographer Inge Morath. The New York. Despite a job offer as a 20th Century Fox scriptwriter, Miller joined the couple had two children, Rebecca and Daniel. Daniel was born with Down's Federal Theatre Project, a New Deal agency that was established in order to provide Syndrome, was institutionalized and excluded from family life. Up until Inge's jobs in the theater. He also wrote scripts for radio programs. Because of fears of death in 2002, the couple remained married. possible Communist infiltration, Congress closed the Federal Theatre Project, so Miller worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard and continued his radio plays. Following The Misfits and his divorce from Marilyn Monroe, Miller worked on his next play, After the Fall, which was produced in 1964. The play reflected his Two years after graduation, Miller married his college sweetheart, Mary Slattery, personal experiences during his marriage to Monroe. Miller also produced Incident on August 5, 1940. They eventually had two children, Jane and Robert Miller. Even at Vichy the same year. The following year he was elected as the first American though World War II was taking place, Miller was exempt from the draft because president of International PEN, and he held that position for four years. In 1968 he of a football injury to his knee. produced The Price, his most successful play since Death of a Salesman. Miller continued his writing and in 1944 had his first play on Broadway, The In the 1960s Miller campaigned for dissident writers' freedoms, and, because of Man Who Had All the Luck. Although it was short-lived, the play won the Theater this, his works were banned in the Soviet Union in 1969. During the 1970s Miller Arthur Miller Name Questions 1. Which of Miller's works was written as an allegory for an actual event in wrote one-act plays. He traveled with his wife and produced In The Country and history? Chinese Encounters with her. He also wrote a 1972 comedy, The Creation of the World and Other Business and its musical adaptation, Up from Paradise, but both A. Death of a Salesman were failures. B. A View from the Bridge C. The Story of GI Joe In 1983, Miller's Death of a Salesman was produced and directed by Miller in D. The Crucible the People's Republic of China. It was a great success. The following year a book about Miller's experiences in Beijing was published. Death of a Salesman was also 2. Which of the following awards did Miller receive for his play, Death of a made into a TV move which started Dustin Hoffman as the main character. In 1987 Salesman? an autobiography, Timebends, was published. In the 1990s Miller wrote three plays: A. Pulitzer Prize The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, The Last Yankee, and Broken Glass. During 1996, The B. New York City Drama Circle Critics Award Crucible was made into a film. Two years later, Mr. Peters' Connections was C. Tony Award staged off-Broadway, and the following year Death of a Salesman was brought D. all of the above back on Broadway in order to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. As before, the play was a big success and won a Tony Award for best revival of a play. 3. Why didn't Miller get drafted into the military during World War II? The 21st century brought honors to Arthur Miller. He was selected for the A. His success and fame kept him from being drafted. Jefferson Lecture in 2001 by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), B. He was too young. the U.S. government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities. The C. He had an injury. following year he was called "the undisputed master of modern drama" when he D. He was too old. was awarded Spain's Principe de Asturias Prize for Literature. Later that same year Miller's wife, Inge, died of lymphatic cancer at the age of seventy-eight. In 2003 4. Which of Miller's works was modeled after a childhood home? Miller won the Jerusalem Prize. In December of 2004, eighty-nine year old Miller A. A View from the Bridge announced his love for Agnes Barley, a thirty-four year old minimalist painter. B. The Misfits They had been living together since 2002 at Miller's Connecticut farm. Although C. Death of a Salesman the two had plans to get married, Miller's daughter never approved of the D. No Villain relationship and demanded that Barley leave the farm. It was said by some that Miller based one character in his final play on Barley. The play, Finishing the 5. Who was Miller's most famous wife? Picture, opened in Chicago at the Goodman Theatre during the fall of 2004. Miller claimed the play was based upon his experiences while filming The Misfits. A. Inge Morath B. Marilyn Monroe Eventually Miller's contributions to theatre came to an end when he died at his C.