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Arthur Miller biography
Arthur Miller
At Writers Theatre: Incident at Vichy, The Price
Arthur Miller was born in 1915 in New York City. He spent his early years playing sports and ignoring books, but during his senior year of high school he read Dostoyevsky's The Idiot and it moved him to become a writer. Coming from a low-income working class family, Miller struggled to pay for college, taking numerous jobs, including working as a clerk in an auto parts warehouse, where for the first time he experienced the effects of American anti-Semitism.
Miller later attended the University of Michigan as a journalism major. It was there that he wrote his first play. It won a cash prize and the admiration of Mary Slattery (later his first wife), convincing him to write more plays and give up journalism for he theatre. YEars of struggle followed. Finally, in 1944, The Man Who Had All The Luck premiered on Broadwar only to close after six performances. Although the play was considered a flop, it still receieved the Theater Guild National Award.
Two years later, All My Sons (19
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On Politics and the Art of Acting
BY ARTHUR MILLER
The 30th Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities
March 26, 2001
Here are some observations about politicians as actors. Since some of my best friends are actors I don't dare say anything bad about the art itself. The fact is that acting is inevitable as soon as we walk out our front doors into society; I am acting now; certainly I am not speaking in the same tone as I would in my living room. It is no news that we are moved more by our glandular reactions to a leader's personality, his acting, than by his proposals or his moral character. To their millions of followers, after all, many of them highly intelligent university intellectuals, Hitler and Stalin were profoundly moral men, revealers of new truths. Aristotle thought man was by nature a social animal, and in fact we are ruled more by the arts of performance, by acting in other words, than anybody wants to think about for very long.
But in our time television has created a quantitative change in all this; one of the oddest things about millions of lives now is that ordi
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Arthur Miller
American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)
For other people named Arthur Miller, see Arthur Miller (disambiguation).
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.[1][2] He received the Praemium Imperiale prize in 2001, the Prince of Asturias Award in 2002, and the Jerusalem Prize in 2003, and
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