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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 and A Memory of Two Mondays (1955), After
the Fall (1964), Incident at Vichy (1964), The Price
(1968), The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972),
The Archbishop's Ceiling (1977), The American Clock (1980)
and Playing for Time. Later plays include The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (1991), The
Last Yankee (1993), Broken Glass (1994), Mr. Peters’
Connections (1998), Resurrection Blues (2002), and
Finishing the Picture (2004).
Other works include Focus, a novel (1945), The Misfits,
a screenplay (1960), and the texts for In Russia (1969),
In the Country (1977), and
Chinese Encounters (1979),
three books with photographs by his wife, Inge Morath. Memoirs
include Salesman in Beijing (1984), and Timebends, an
autobiography (1988). Short fiction includes the collection I Don’t
Need You Anymore (1967), the novella, Homely Girl, a Life
(1995) and Presence: Stories (2007). He was awarded the Avery Hopwood Award for Playwriting at
University of Michigan in 1936. He twice won the New York Drama
Critics Circle Award, received two Emmy awards and three Tony Awards
for his plays, as well as a Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement. He
also won an Obie award, a BBC Best Play Award, the George Foster
Peabody Award, a Gold Medal for Drama from the National Institute of
Arts and Letters, the Literary Lion Award from the New York Public
Library, the John F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Algur Meadows Award. He was named Jefferson Lecturer for the National Endowment
for the Humanities in 2001. He was awarded the 2002 Prince of
Asturias Award for Letters and the 2003 Jerusalem Prize.
He received honorary degrees from Oxford University and Harvard
University and was awarded the Prix Moliere of the French theatre,
the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Lifetime Achievement Award and the
Pulitzer Prize, as well as numerous other awards.
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