Overview of Arthur Miller and his Most Famour Works

Arthur Miller is a famous play writer who also wrote a couple of novels. His works were extremely popular around world war two, and still are famous today. He was born on October 17, 1915 in New York (Gale database). After a long and successful writing career he died on February 10, 2005 in Roxbury, Connecticut (Gale database). Miller went to the University of Michigan in 1934 to achieve a degree in Journalism (Gale database). Miller first started writing when he was at The University of Michigan. In 1947 his first play “All my Sons” opened on Broadway. After his opening on Broadway, Miller’s work began to spread and it started to become famous. Miller’s next work “Death of a salesman” won him the Pulitzer Price. Then Miller started studying the Salem witchcraft trials and decided to write a play on it, and it was the right decision because it brought him major fame. The thoughts that Miller had about the reasons why he wrote the play is what brought him the fame. Miller was a big family man which was why he won father of the year in 1949 (Gale database). He had had two kids with his college sweetheart from Michigan. Her name was Mary Salttery. Miller and Mary divorced, and then he married Marilyn Monroe in 1956, but it was a quick marriage that ended when they divorced in 1961 (Gale database). The three works that Miller wrote that are listed above are not the only plays he wrote, but they were the most popular of his works, and they were the three plays that brought him most of his fame. Miller’s way of writing had a way of moving people, and his plays brought his writing to life which made his work even more real and impacting to his readers. Miller is an outstanding play writer that has many interesting ways of writing that...

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Miller, Arthur. The Crucible. New York, NY: Penguin, 1996. Print.

This is the work of Arthur Miller “The Crucible”. The book gives direct quotes from the story. It also gives background information of the setting. It has all information needed for the work of Arthur Miller. The citation is needed for me to write a complete paper about the crucible.

Prentice Hall Literature, The American Experience. Saddle River, New Jershey: Pearson Education, 2004. Print. Georgia Student Education.

This text book has many works of Arthur Miller in it. It helps me learn about his type of writing and the ways he writes that make his writing so good. This textbook also has a lot of background information about” The crucible” and the play in the book. This textbook will also give me themes about his works. The textbook will most importantly give me information on Arthur Miller.