Arthur Miller

Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright and essayist, born on 17 October 1915 and dead on 10 February 2005. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible and A View from the Bridge, and Death of a Salesman is considered one of the best American plays of the twentieth century. He was often in the public eye during the late 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s, when he received a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee and married Marilyn Monroe. He later received the Praemium Imperiale in 2001, the Prince of Asturias Award in 2002 and the Jerusalem Prize in 2003.