
and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American theatre
, writing drama
s that include plays such as All My Sons
(1947), Death of a Salesman
(1949), The Crucible
(1953), and A View from the Bridge
(one-act, 1955; revised two-act, 1956).
Miller was often in the public eye, particularly during the late 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s, a period during which he testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee
, received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
and the Prince of Asturias Award, and was married to Marilyn Monroe
.
Arthur Asher Miller was born on October 17, 1915, in Harlem
, New York City
, the second of three children of Isidore and Augusta Miller, Polish-Jewish immigrants. name="UMICH_Early"> His father, a mostly illiterate but moderately wealthy businessman, owned a women's clothing store employing 400 people.
I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.
I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Internal Security Act|McCarran Act.
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance — you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.
and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American theatre
, writing drama
s that include plays such as All My Sons
(1947), Death of a Salesman
(1949), The Crucible
(1953), and A View from the Bridge
(one-act, 1955; revised two-act, 1956).
Miller was often in the public eye, particularly during the late 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s, a period during which he testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee
, received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
and the Prince of Asturias Award, and was married to Marilyn Monroe
.
Early life
Arthur Asher Miller was born on October 17, 1915, in Harlem, New York City
, the second of three children of Isidore and Augusta Miller, Polish-Jewish immigrants. name="UMICH_Early"> His father, a mostly illiterate but moderately wealthy businessman, owned a women's clothing store employing 400 people. The family, including his younger sister Joan
, lived on East 110th Street
in Manhattan
and owned a summer house in Far Rockaway, Queens
. They employed a chauffeur. In the Wall Street Crash of 1929
, the family lost almost everything and moved to Gravesend, Brooklyn
. As a teenager, Miller delivered bread every morning before school to help the family. 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 first majored in journalism and worked as a reporter and night editor for the student paper, the Michigan Daily
. It was during this time that he wrote his first play, No Villain
. Miller switched his major to English, and subsequently won the Avery Hopwood Award
for No Villain. The award brought him his first recognition and led him to begin to consider that he could have a career as a playwright. Miller enrolled in a playwriting seminar taught by the influential Professor Kenneth Rowe
, who instructed him in his early forays into playwriting; Rowe emphasized how a play is built in order to achieve its intended effect, or what Miller called "the dynamics of play construction". Rowe provided realistic feedback along with much-needed encouragement, and became a lifelong friend. Miller retained strong ties to his alma mater throughout the rest of his life, establishing the university's Arthur Miller Award in 1985 and Arthur Miller Award for Dramatic Writing in 1999, and lending his name to the Arthur Miller Theatre in 2000. In 1937, Miller wrote Honors at Dawn
, which also received the Avery Hopwood Award.
In 1938, Miller received a BA
in English. After graduation, he joined the Federal Theater Project, a New Deal
agency established to provide jobs in the theater. He chose the theater project although he had an offer to work as a scriptwriter for 20th Century Fox
. However, Congress
, worried about possible Communist
infiltration, closed the project in 1939. Miller began working in the Brooklyn Navy Yard
while continuing to write radio plays, some of which were broadcast on CBS
.
On August 5, 1940, he married his college sweetheart, Mary Slattery, the Catholic daughter of an insurance salesman. The couple had two children, Jane and Robert. Miller was exempted from military service during World War II
because of a high-school football
injury to his left kneecap. Robert, a writer and film director, produced the 1996 movie version of The Crucible.
Early career
In 1940 Miller wrote The Man Who Had All the Luck, which was produced in New Jersey in 1940 and won the Theatre Guild's National Award. The play closed after four performances and disastrous reviews. In his book Trinity of Passion, author Alan M. Wald conjectures that Miller was "a member of a writer's unit of the Communist Party
around 1946", using the pseudonym Matt Wayne, and editing a drama column in the magazine The New Masses
. In 1946 Miller's play All My Sons
, the writing of which had commenced in 1941, was a success on Broadway (earning him his first Tony Award
, for Best Author
) and his reputation as a playwright was established.
In 1948 Miller built a small studio in Roxbury, Connecticut
. There, in less than a day, he wrote Act I of Death of a Salesman
. Within six weeks, he completed the rest of the play, one of the classics of world theater. Death of a Salesman premiered on Broadway on February 10, 1949 at the Morosco Theatre, directed by Elia Kazan
, and starring Lee J. Cobb
as Willy Loman, Mildred Dunnock
as Linda, Arthur Kennedy
as Biff, and Cameron Mitchell
as Happy. The play was commercially successful and critically acclaimed, winning a Tony Award for Best Author
, the New York Drama Circle Critics' Award
, and the Pulitzer Prize
for Drama. It was the first play to win all three of these major awards. The play was performed 742 times.
In 1952, Kazan appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee
(HUAC); fearful of being blacklisted from Hollywood, Kazan named eight members of the Group Theatre, including Clifford Odets
, Paula Strasberg
, Lillian Hellman
, Joe Bromberg
, and John Garfield
, who in recent years had been fellow members of the Communist Party
. After speaking with Kazan about his testimony Miller traveled to Salem, Massachusetts
to research the witch trials of 1692
. The Crucible
, in which Miller likened the situation with the House Un-American Activities Committee to the witch hunt in Salem in 1692, opened at the Beck Theatre on Broadway
on January 22, 1953. Though widely considered only somewhat successful at the time of its initial release, today The Crucible
is Miller's most frequently produced work throughout the world and was adapted into an opera
by Robert Ward which won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1962. Miller and Kazan were close friends throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s, but after Kazan's testimony to the HUAC, the pair's friendship ended, and they did not speak to each other for the next ten years. The HUAC took an interest in Miller himself not long after The Crucible opened, denying him a passport to attend the play's London opening in 1954. Kazan defended his own actions through his film On the Waterfront
, in which a dockworker heroically testifies against a corrupt union boss.
Miller's experience with the HUAC affected him throughout his life. In the late 1970s he became very interested in the highly publicized Barbara Gibbons murder case, in which Gibbons' son Peter Reilly was convicted of his mother's murder based on what many felt was a coerced confession and little other evidence. City Confidential
, an A&E Network
program about the murder, postulated that part of the reason Miller took such an active interest (including supporting Reilly's defense and using his own celebrity to bring attention to Reilly's plight) was because he had felt similarly persecuted in his run-in with the HUAC. He sympathized with Reilly, whom he firmly believed to be innocent and to have been railroaded by the Connecticut State Police and the Attorney General who had initially prosecuted the case.
1956–1964
In 1956, a one-act version of Miller's verse dramaA View from the Bridge
opened on Broadway in a joint bill with one of Miller's lesser-known plays, A Memory of Two Mondays
. The following year, Miller revised A View from the Bridge as a two-act prose
drama, which Peter Brook
directed in London.
In June 1956, Miller left his first wife Mary Slattery and on June 25 he married Marilyn Monroe
. Miller and Monroe had met in April 23 1951, when they had a brief affair, and had remained in contact since then.
When Miller applied in 1956 for a routine renewal of his passport, the HUAC used this opportunity to subpoena
him to appear before the committee. Before appearing, Miller asked the committee not to ask him to name names, to which the chairman agreed.
When Miller attended the hearing, to which Monroe accompanied him, risking her own career, he gave the committee a detailed account of his political activities. Reneging on the chairman's promise, the committee demanded the names of friends and colleagues who had participated in similar activities. Miller refused to comply, saying "I could not use the name of another person and bring trouble on him." As a result, a judge found Miller guilty of contempt of Congress
in May 1957. Miller was sentenced to a $500 fine or thirty days in prison, blacklisted, and disallowed a US passport. In 1958, his conviction was overturned by the court of appeals, which ruled that Miller had been misled by the chairman of the HUAC.
Miller began work on The Misfits
, starring his wife. Miller later said that the filming was one of the lowest points in his life; shortly before the film's premiere in 1961, the pair divorced. 19 months later, Monroe died of an apparent drug overdose.
Miller married photographer Inge Morath
on February 17, 1962 and the first of their two children, Rebecca
, was born that September. Their son Daniel was born with Down syndrome
in November 1966; he was institutionalized and excluded from the Millers' personal life at Arthur's insistence. The couple remained together until Inge's death in 2002. Arthur Miller's son-in-law, actor Daniel Day-Lewis
, is said to have visited Daniel frequently, and to have persuaded Arthur Miller to reunite with his adult son.
Later career
In 1964 Miller's next play was produced. After the Fallis a deeply personal view of Miller's experiences during his marriage to Monroe. The play reunited Miller with his former friend Kazan: they collaborated on both the script and the direction. After the Fall
opened on January 23, 1964 at the ANTA Theatre in Washington Square Park
amid a flurry of publicity and outrage at putting a Monroe-like character, called Maggie, on stage. That same year, Miller produced Incident at Vichy
. In 1965, Miller was elected the first American president of International PEN
, a position which he held for four years. During this period Miller wrote the penetrating family drama, The Price
, produced in 1968. It was Miller's most successful play since Death of a Salesman.
In 1969, Miller's works were banned in the Soviet Union
after he campaigned for the freedom of dissident writers. Throughout the 1970s, Miller spent much of his time experimenting with the theatre, producing one-act plays such as Fame and The Reason Why, and traveling with his wife, producing In The Country and Chinese Encounters with her. Both his 1972 comedy The Creation of the World and Other Business
and its musical adaptation, Up from Paradise
, were critical and commercial failures.
Miller was an unusually articulate commentator on his own work. In 1978 he published a collection of his Theater Essays, edited by Robert A. Martin and with a foreword by Miller. Highlights of the collection included Miller's introduction to his Collected Plays, his reflections on the theory of tragedy, comments on the McCarthy Era, and pieces arguing for a publicly supported theater. Reviewing this collection in the Chicago Tribune, Studs Terkel remarked, "in reading [the Theater Essays]...you are exhilaratingly aware of a social critic, as well as a playwright, who knows what he's talking about."
In 1983, Miller traveled to China
to produce and direct Death of a Salesman at the People's Art Theatre in Beijing
. The play was a success in China and in 1984, Salesman in Beijing, a book about Miller's experiences in Beijing, was published. Around the same time, Death of a Salesman was made into a TV movie starring Dustin Hoffman
as Willy Loman. Shown on CBS, it attracted 25 million viewers. In late 1987, Miller's autobiographical work,
Timebends, was published. Before it was published, it was well-known that Miller would not talk about Monroe in interviews; in Timebends Miller talks about his experiences with Monroe in detail. During the early 1990s Miller wrote three new plays, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan
(1991), The Last Yankee
(1992), and Broken Glass
(1994). In 1996, a film of The Crucible starring Daniel Day-Lewis
and Winona Ryder
opened. Miller spent much of 1996 working on the screenplay to the film.
Mr. Peters' Connections
was staged Off-Broadway
in 1998, and Death of a Salesman was revived on Broadway in 1999 to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. The play, once again, was a large critical success, winning a Tony Award for best revival of a play.
In 1993, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts
. In 2001 the National Endowment for the Humanities
(NEH) selected Miller for the Jefferson Lecture
, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities
. Miller's lecture was entitled "On Politics and the Art of Acting."
Miller's lecture analyzed political events (including the U.S. presidential election of 2000
)
in terms of the "arts of performance", and it drew attacks from some conservatives such as Jay Nordlinger
, who called it "a disgrace",
and George Will
, who argued that Miller was not legitimately a "scholar".
In 1999 Miller was awarded The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize
, one of the richest prizes in the arts, given annually to “a man or woman who has made an outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to mankind’s enjoyment and understanding of life.” On May 1, 2002, Miller was awarded Spain's Principe de Asturias Prize for Literature as "the undisputed master of modern drama". Later that year, Ingeborg Morath died of lymphatic cancer at the age of 78. The following year Miller won the Jerusalem Prize
.
In December 2004, the 89-year-old Miller announced that he had been in love with 34-year-old minimalist painter
Agnes Barley and had been living with her at his Connecticut farm since 2002, and that they intended to marry. Within hours of her father's death, Rebecca Miller
ordered Barley to vacate the premises, having consistently opposed the relationship. Miller's final play, Finishing the Picture
, opened at the Goodman Theatre
, Chicago
, in the fall of 2004, with one character said to be based on Barley. Miller said that the work was based on the experience of filming The Misfits.
When interviewed by BBC4 for The Atheism Tapes
, he stated that he had been an atheist since his teens.
Miller died of heart failure after a battle against cancer, pneumonia and congestive heart disease at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut
. He had been in hospice care at his sister's apartment in New York since his release from hospital the previous month. He died on the evening of February 10, 2005 (the 56th anniversary of the Broadway debut of Death of a Salesman), aged 89, surrounded by Barley, family and friends.
Legacy
Miller's career as a writer spanned over seven decades, and at the time of his death, Miller was considered to be one of the greatest dramatists of the twentieth century. After his death, many respected actors, directors, and producers paid tribute to Miller, some calling him the last great practitioner of the American stage, and Broadway theatres darkened their lights in a show of respect.
Miller's alma mater, the University of Michigan opened the Arthur Miller Theatre in March, 2007. Per his express wish, it is the only theatre in the world that bears Miller's name.
Christopher Bigsby
wrote Arthur Miller: The Definitive Biography based on boxes of papers Miller made available to him before his death in 2005. The book was published in November 2008, and is reported to reveal unpublished works in which Miller "bitterly attack[ed] the injustices of American racism long before it was taken up by the civil rights movement".
Miller's papers are housed at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
at The University of Texas at Austin.
Stage plays
- No VillainNo VillainNo Villain is a play written by Arthur Miller during his sophomore year in 1936, during spring break. This was his first work, reportedly written in six days in the hope of winning a $250 Hopwood Award, the first of two that he won....
(1936) - They Too AriseThey Too AriseThey Too Arise was an early work of Arthur Miller. It was a rewrite of No Villain....
(1937, based on No Villain) - Honors at DawnHonors at DawnHonors at Dawn, written in 1936, is Arthur Miller's second play , for which he won a second Avery Hopwood Award. It was written at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, Michigan....
(1938, based on They Too Arise) - The Grass Still Grows (1938, based on They Too Arise)
- The Great Disobedience (1938)
- Listen My Children (1939, with Norman Rosten)
- The Golden Years (1940)
- The Man Who Had All the LuckThe Man Who Had All the LuckThe Man Who Had All the Luck is a play by Arthur Miller.David Beeves is a young Midwestern automobile mechanic who discovers he is blessed with what appears to be almost supernatural good fortune that allows him to overcome every seemingly insurmountable obstacle that crosses his path while those...
(1940) - The Half-Bridge (1943)
- All My SonsAll My SonsAll My Sons is a 1947 play by Arthur Miller. The play was twice adapted for film; in 1948, and again in 1987.The play opened on Broadway at the Coronet Theatre in New York City on January 29, 1947, closed on November 8, 1947 and ran for 328 performances...
(1947) - Death of a SalesmanDeath of a SalesmanDeath of a Salesman is a 1949 play written by American playwright Arthur Miller. It was the recipient of the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play. Premiered at the Morosco Theatre in February 1949, the original production ran for a total of 742 performances.-Plot :Willy Loman...
(1949) - An Enemy of the People (1950, based on Henrik Ibsen's play An Enemy of the PeopleAn Enemy of the PeopleAn Enemy of the People is an 1882 play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Ibsen wrote it in response to the public outcry against his play Ghosts, which at that time was considered scandalous...
) - The CrucibleThe CrucibleThe Crucible is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists...
(1953) - A View from the BridgeA View from the BridgeA View from the Bridge is a play by American playwright Arthur Miller that was first staged on September 29, 1955 as a one-act verse drama with A Memory of Two Mondays at the Coronet Theatre on Broadway. The play was unsuccessful and Miller subsequently revised the play to contain two acts; this...
(1955) - A Memory of Two MondaysA Memory of Two MondaysA Memory of Two Mondays is a one-act play by Arthur Miller.Based on Miller's own experiences, the play focuses on a group of desperate workers earning their livings in a Brooklyn automobile parts warehouse during the Great Depression in the 1930s, a time of 25 percent unemployment in the United...
(1955) - After the FallAfter the Fall (play)After the Fall is a play by American dramatist Arthur Miller. The original performance opened in New York City on January 23, 1964, directed by Elia Kazan and starring Barbara Loden and Jason Robards Jr., with an early appearance by Faye Dunaway. Kazan also collaborated with Miller on the script...
(1964) - Incident at VichyIncident At VichyIncident at Vichy is a 1964 play by American dramatist Arthur Miller focusing upon the subjects of human nature, guilt, fear, and complicity using Vichy France for the setting. Miller, a Jew himself, wrote the one act play about a group of detainees waiting for inspection by German officers during...
(1964) - The PriceThe Price (play)The Price is a 1968 play by Arthur Miller. It is a piece about family dynamics, the price of furniture and the price of one's decisions. The play opened on Broadway at the Morosco Theatre on February 7, 1968 where it played until the production moved to the 46th Street Theatre on November 18, 1968....
(1968) - The Reason Why (1970)
- Fame (one-act, 1970; revised for television 1978)
- The Creation of the World and Other BusinessThe Creation of the World and Other BusinessThe Creation of the World and Other Business is a play by Arthur Miller.A parable inspired by the Book of Genesis in the Bible, it explores the classic theme of good versus evil by way of a comedic retelling of the story of the creation of man . Miller's God is powerful but lacks wisdom...
(1972) - The Archbishop's CeilingThe Archbishop's CeilingThe Archbishop's Ceiling is a drama written in the 1970s by Arthur Miller.The setting is an ornate room in a former Archbishop's palace in an Eastern European capital, a room which has probably been bugged by the secret police...
(1977) - The American ClockThe American ClockThe American Clock is a play by Arthur Miller. The play is about 1930s America during The Great Depression. It is based in part on Studs Terkel's Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression. The play premiered on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre on November 11, 1980; closing on November 30,...
(1980) - Playing for TimePlaying For Time (film)Playing For Time is a 1980 CBS television film, written by Arthur Miller and Fania Fénelon, based on Fénelon's autobiography, The Musicians of Auschwitz...
(television play, 1980) - Elegy for a LadyElegy for a Lady"Elegy for a Lady" is a one-act play by Arthur Miller. It was first presented in 1982 by the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, where it was combined with "Some Kind of Love Story" under the title 2 by A.M.; the combination of these two plays has also been presented as Two-Way...
(short play, 1982, first part of Two Way Mirror) - Some Kind of Love StorySome Kind of Love Story"Some Kind of Love Story" is a one-act play by Arthur Miller. It was first presented in 1982 by the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, where it was combined with "Elegy for a Lady" under the title 2 by A.M.; the combination of these two plays has also been presented as Two-Way...
(short play, 1982, second part of Two Way Mirror) - I Think About You a Great Deal (1986)
- Playing for Time (stage version, 1985)
- I Can’t Remember Anything (1987, collected in Danger: Memory!)
- Clara (1987, collected in Danger: Memory!)
- The Last YankeeThe Last YankeeThe Last Yankee is a play by Arthur Miller, which premiered on January 05, 1993 at the Manhattan Theatre Club in New York City. The cast included Tom Aldredge as John Frick, Frances Conroy as Patricia Hamilton, Rose Gregorio as Karen Frick, John Heard as Leroy Hamilton, and Charlotte Maier as the...
(1991) - The Ride Down Mt. MorganThe Ride Down Mt. MorganThe Ride Down Mt. Morgan is a play by Arthur Miller.The play's central character is Lyman Felt, an insurance agent and bigamist who maintains families in New York City and Elmira in upstate New York...
(1991) - Broken GlassBroken Glass (play)Broken Glass is a 1994 play by Arthur Miller, focusing on a couple in New York City in 1938, the same time of Kristallnacht, in Nazi Germany. The play's title is derived from Kristallnacht, which is also known as the Night of Broken Glass.-Characters:...
(1994) - Mr Peter’s Connections (1998)
- Resurrection BluesResurrection BluesResurrection Blues is Arthur Miller's penultimate play. Though Miller was not known for his humor, this play uses a pointed comedic edge to intensify his observations about the dangers, as well as the benefits, of blind belief: political, religious, economic and emotional.-Plot:The story is set in...
(2002) - Finishing the PictureFinishing the PictureFinishing the Picture is Arthur Miller's final play. It was produced at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago, Illinois in October 2004,just months before Miller's death on February 10, 2005.-Production:...
(2004)
Non-fiction
- Situation Normal (1944) is based on his experiences researching the war correspondence of Ernie PyleErnie PyleErnest Taylor Pyle was an American journalist who wrote as a roving correspondent for the Scripps Howard newspaper chain from 1935 until his death in combat during World War II. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1944...
. - In Russia (1969), the first of three books created with his photographer wife Inge Morath, offers Miller's impressions of RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
and Russian society. - In the Country (1977), with photographs by Morath and text by Miller, provides insight into how Miller spent his time in Roxbury, Connecticut and profiles of his various neighbors.
- Chinese Encounters (1979) is a travel journal with photographs by Morath. It depicts the Chinese society in the state of flux which followed the end of the Cultural RevolutionCultural RevolutionThe Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, commonly known as the Cultural Revolution , was a socio-political movement that took place in the People's Republic of China from 1966 through 1976...
. Miller discusses the hardships of many writers, professors, and artists as they try to regain the sense of freedom and place they lost during Mao ZedongMao ZedongMao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung , and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao , was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, Marxist political philosopher, and leader of the Chinese Revolution...
's regime. - Salesman in Beijing (1984) details Miller's experiences with the 1983 BeijingBeijingBeijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...
People's Theatre production of Death of a Salesman. He describes the idiosyncrasies, understandings, and insights encountered in directing a Chinese cast in a decidedly American play. - Timebends: A Life, Methuen London (1987) ISBN 0413414809. Like Death of a Salesman, the book follows the structure of memory itself, each passage linked to and triggered by the one before.
Radio plays
- The Pussycat and the Plumber Who Was a Man (1941)
- William Ireland’s Confession (1941)
- Joel Chandler Harris (1941)
- Captain Paul (1941)
- The Battle of the Ovens (1942)
- Thunder from the Mountains (1942)
- I Was Married in Bataan (1942)
- Toward a Farther Star (1942)
- The Eagle’s Nest (1942)
- The Four Freedoms (1942)
- That They May Win (1943)
- Listen for the Sound of Wings (1943)
- Bernardine (1944)
- I Love You (1944)
- Grandpa and the Statue (1944)
- The Philippines Never Surrendered (1944)
- The GuardsmanThe GuardsmanThe Guardsman is a 1931 film based on the play Testőr by Ferenc Molnár. It stars Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Roland Young and ZaSu Pitts...
(1944, based on Ferenc MolnárFerenc MolnárLanguageFerenc Molnár was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist. His Americanized name was Franz Molnar...
’s play) - The Story of Gus (1947)
Assorted fiction
- FocusFocus (novel)Focus is a 1945 novel by Arthur Miller dealing with issues of racism, particularly antisemitism. In 2002, a film version, starring William H. Macy, was released.-Plot summary:...
(novel, 1945) - "The Misfits" (short story, 1957)
- I Don’t Need You Anymore (short stories, 1967)
- "Homely Girl" (short story, 1992, published in UK as "Plain Girl: A Life" 1995)
- "The Performance" (short story)
- Presence: Stories (short stories, 2007)
Screenplays
- All My Sons (1947)
- The Hook (1947)
- The MisfitsThe Misfits (film)The Misfits is a 1961 American drama film written by Arthur Miller, directed by John Huston, and starring Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter, and Eli Wallach. It was the final film appearance for both Gable and Monroe...
(1961) - Everybody WinsEverybody WinsEverybody Wins is a play written by Arthur Miller, who also wrote the screenplay for the film of the same name directed by Karel Reisz released in 1990 starring Debra Winger and Nick Nolte.-Synopsis:...
(1984) - Death of a SalesmanDeath of a Salesman (1985 film)Death of a Salesman is a 1985 CBS made for television film directed by Volker Schlöndorff, based on the 1949 play of the same name by Arthur Miller. It stars Dustin Hoffman, Kate Reid, John Malkovich, Stephen Lang and Charles Durning...
(1985) - The Crucible (1995)
Collections
- Kushner, Tony, ed. Arthur Miller, Collected Plays 1944–1961 (Library of AmericaLibrary of AmericaThe Library of America is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature.- Overview and history :Founded in 1979 with seed money from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation, the LoA has published over 200 volumes by a wide range of authors from Mark Twain to Philip...
, 2006) ISBN 978-1-93108291-4. - Martin, Robert A. (ed.), "The theater essays of Arthur Miller", foreword by Arthur Miller. NY: Viking Press, 1978 ISBN 0140049037.
- Steven R Centola, ed. Echoes Down the Corridor: Arthur Miller, Collected Essays 1944–2000, Viking Penguin (US)/Methuen (UK), 2000 ISBN 0413756904
Biographies and critical studies of Miller
- File on Miller, Christopher Bigsy (1988)
- Arthur Miller & Company, Christopher Bigsby, editor (1990)
- Arthur Miller: A Critical Study, Christopher Bigsby (2005)
- Remembering Arthur Miller, Christopher Bigsby, editor (2005)
- Arthur Miller 1915–1962, Christopher Bigsby (2008, U.K.; 2009, U.S.)
- The Cambridge Companion to Arthur Miller (Cambridge Companions to Literature), Christopher Bigsby, editor (1998, updated and republished 2010)
- Arthur Miller 1962–2005, Christopher Bigsby (February 2011)
External links
- Arthur Miller Society, including a chronology
- A Visit With Castro – Miller's article in The Nation, January 12, 2004
- Joyce Carol Oates on Arthur Miller
Interviews
- Miller interview, Humanities, March–April 2001
Obituaries