He switched his major to English, and subsequently won the Avery Hopwood Award for No Villain. It was during this time that he wrote his first play, No Villain.

(Members were largely either Communist Party members or fellow travelers.) Īt the University of Michigan, Miller first majored in journalism and wrote for the student newspaper, The Michigan Daily, and the satirical Gargoyle Humor Magazine. Stone, Myra Page, Millen Brand, Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett. On May 1, 1935, he joined the League of American Writers (1935–1943), whose members included Alexander Trachtenberg of International Publishers, Franklin Folsom, Louis Untermeyer, I. 1936), he worked as a psychiatric aide and copywriter before accepting faculty posts at New York University and University of New Hampshire. After graduating in 1932 from Abraham Lincoln High School, he worked at several menial jobs to pay for his college tuition at the University of Michigan. Miller later published an account of his early years under the title 'A Boy Grew in Brooklyn'. (One source says they moved to Midwood.) As a teenager, Miller delivered bread every morning before school to help the family. In the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the family lost almost everything and moved to Gravesend, Brooklyn. The family, including Miller's younger sister Joan Copeland, lived on West 110th Street in Manhattan, owned a summer house in Far Rockaway, Queens, and employed a chauffeur. He became a wealthy and respected man in the community. Isidore owned a women's clothing manufacturing business employing 400 people. His father was born in Radomyśl Wielki, Galicia (then part of Austria-Hungary, now Poland), and his mother was a native of New York whose parents also arrived from that town. He was Jewish and of Polish-Jewish descent. Miller was born in Harlem, in the New York City borough of Manhattan, the second of three children of Augusta (Barnett) and Isidore Miller. He received the Praemium Imperiale prize in 2001, the Prince of Asturias Award in 2002, and the Jerusalem Prize in 2003, and the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize in 1999. Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates. During this time, he received a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and married Marilyn Monroe. Miller was often in the public eye, particularly during the late 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s. The drama Death of a Salesman is considered one of the best American plays of the 20th century. He wrote several screenplays and was most noted for his work on The Misfits (1961). 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). Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater.

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