Arthur Miller, author portrait
© Arthur Miller, 1995. © Inge Morath / Magnum Photos.

Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller (1915–2005) was born in New York City and studied at the University of Michigan. His plays include All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), A View from the Bridge, A Memory of Two Mondays (1955), After the Fall (1963), Incident at Vichy (1964), The Price (1968), The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972) and The American Clock (1980). He also wrote two novels, Focus (1945) and The Misfits, which was filmed in 1960, and the text for In Russia (1969), Chinese Encounters (1979), and In the Country (1977), three books of photographs by his wife, Inge Morath. His later work included a memoir, Timebends (1987); the plays The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (1991), The Last Yankee (1993), Broken Glass (1994), and Mr. Peter's Connections (1999); Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays, 1944–2000; and On Politics and the Art of Acting (2001). He twice won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and in 1949 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Miller was the recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 2001 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters in 2002, and the Jerusalem Prize in 2003.
Collected Essays
The Crucible
All My Sons
The Man Who Had All the Luck
The Penguin Arthur Miller
An Enemy of the People
A View from the Bridge
Resurrection Blues
The Man Who Had All the Luck
The Portable Arthur Miller
The Crucible
All My Sons
The Ride Down Mt. Morgan
Mr. Peters' Connections
Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman
Broken Glass
The Price
Incident at Vichy
After the Fall
An Enemy of the People
A View from the Bridge
Death of a Salesman
Six Great Modern Plays

Books

Collected Essays
The Crucible
All My Sons
The Man Who Had All the Luck
The Penguin Arthur Miller
An Enemy of the People
A View from the Bridge
Resurrection Blues
The Man Who Had All the Luck
The Portable Arthur Miller
The Crucible
All My Sons
The Ride Down Mt. Morgan
Mr. Peters' Connections
Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman
Broken Glass
The Price
Incident at Vichy
After the Fall
An Enemy of the People
A View from the Bridge
Death of a Salesman
Six Great Modern Plays

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