Arthur Miller - Wikipedia

Thank you my friend Maj Marty Hogan for making us aware that October 17 is the anniversary of the birth of American playwright and essayist who was a major figure in the twentieth-century American theater Arthur Asher Miller who wrote All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953) and A View from the Bridge (1955, revised 1956).
I remember reading Death of a Salesman as a cadet at West Point. He was an immensely gifted writer IMHO.
Images:
1. 1994 Arthur Miller with Inge Morath and daughter, Rebecca.
2. 1984 Arthur Miller announcing the 1984 revival of Salesman, with Dustin Hoffman (beside him)
3. 1957 Arthur Miller and second wife, Marilyn Monroe.
4. 1942 Arthur Miller with first wife Mary Slattery and daughter, Jane
Rest in peace Arthur Asher Miller

1. Background from jewage.org/wiki/ru/Article:Arthur_Asher_Miller_-_biography
" Biography of Arthur Asher Miller
Early life
Arthur Asher Miller was born on October 17, 1915, in New York City, the second of three children of Isidore and Augusta Miller, Polish-Jewish immigrants. His father, an illiterate but 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 make ends meet. 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 work, No Villain. Miller switched his major to English, and subsequently won the Avery Hopwood Award for No Villain. He was mentored by Professor Kenneth Rowe, who instructed him in his early forays into playwriting. 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, 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 remained 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 drama, A 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 returned to A View from the Bridge, revising it into a two-act prose version, which Peter Brook produced in London.

In June 1956 Miller left his first wife Mary Slattery, and on June 29, he married Marilyn Monroe. Miller and Monroe had first met in April 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 (leaving out the fact that he was a communist party member). Reneging on the chairman's promise, the committee asked him to reveal the names of friends and colleagues who had participated in similar activities. Miller refused to comply with the request, 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 fined $500, sentenced to thirty days in prison, blacklisted, and disallowed a U.S. 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.

After his conviction was overturned, Miller began work on The Misfits, starring his wife. Miller said that the filming was one of the lowest points in his life, and shortly before the film's premiere in 1961, the pair divorced. Nineteen 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, and was consequently 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 Fall is 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.

In 1983, Miller traveled to the People's Republic of 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 recent 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.

Works
Stage plays
No Villain (1936)
They Too Arise (1937, based on No Villain)
Honors at Dawn (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 Luck (1940)
The Half-Bridge (1943)
All My Sons (1947)
Death of a Salesman (1949)
An Enemy of the People (1950, based on Henrik Ibsen's play 'An Enemy of the People')
The Crucible (1953)
A View from the Bridge (1955)
A Memory of Two Mondays (1955)
After the Fall (1964)
Incident at Vichy (1964)
The Price (1968)
Fame (television play, 1970)
The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972)
The Archbishop's Ceiling (1977)
The American Clock (1980)
Playing For Time (television play, 1980)
Elegy for a Lady (short play, 1982, first part of Two Way Mirror)
Some Kind of Love Story (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 Yankee (1991)
The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (1991)
Broken Glass (1994)
Mr Peter’s Connections (1998)
Resurrection Blues (2002)
Finishing the Picture (2004)

Non-fiction
Situation Normal (1944) is based on his experiences researching the war *correspondence of Ernie Pyle.
In Russia (1969), the first of three books created with his photographer wife Inge Morath, offers Miller's impressions of Russia 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 Revolution. 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 Zedong's regime.
Salesman in Beijing (1984) details Miller's experiences with the 1983 Beijing 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 [login to see] . 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 Guardsman (1944, based on Ferenc Molnár’s play)
Pride and Prejudice (radio play, 1944, based on Jane Austen’s novel)
The Story of Gus (1947)
The Reason Why(1970)

Assorted fiction
Focus (novel, 1945)
The Misfits (short story, 1957)
I Don’t Need You Anymore (short stories, 1967)
Homely Girl (short story, 1992, published UK as Plain Girl: A Life 1995)
The Performance (short story)
Presence: Stories (short stories, 2007)

Screenplays
The Hook (1947)
The Misfits (1961)
Everybody Wins (1984)
The Crucible (1995)
Collections
Kushner, Tony, ed. Arthur Miller, Collected Plays 1944–1961 (Library of America, 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 [login to see] .
Steven R Centola, ed. Echoes Down the Corridor: Arthur Miller, Collected Essays 1944-2000, Viking Penguin (US)/Methuen (UK), 2000 ISBN [login to see]

2. Timeline from arthurmillersociety.net/am-chronology/
"A BRIEF CHRONOLOGY OF ARTHUR MILLER’S LIFE AND WORKS
1915 Arthur Asher Miller was born on October 17th in New York City; family lives at 45 West 110th Street.
1920-28 Attends Public School #24 in Harlem.
1923 Sees first play–a melodrama at the Schubert Theater.
1928 Bar-Mitzvah at the Avenue M temple. Father’s business struggling and family move to Brooklyn. Attends James Madison High School.
1930 Reassigned to the newly built Abraham Lincoln High School. Plays on football team.
1931 Delivery boy for local bakery before school, and works for father’s business over summer vacation.
1932 Graduates from Abraham Lincoln High School. Probable date for “In Memoriam” short story not published until 1995. Registers for night school at City College, but quits after two weeks.
1933-34 Clerked in an auto-parts warehouse, where he was the only Jew employed and had his first real, personal experiences of American anti-Semitism.
1934 Enters University of Michigan in the Fall to study journalism. Reporter and night editor on student paper, The Michigan Daily.
1936 Writes No Villain in six days and receives Hopwood Award in Drama. Transfers to an English major.
1937 Takes playwrighting class with Professor Kenneth T. Rowe. Rewrite of No Villain, titled, They Too Arise, receives a major award from the Bureau of New Plays and is produced in Ann Arbor and Detroit. Honors at Dawn receives Hopwood Award in Drama. Drives Ralph Neaphus East to join the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain during their Civil War, and decides not to go with him.
1938 The Great Disobedience receives second place in the Hopwood contest. They Too Arise is revised and titled The Grass Still Grows for anticipated production in New York City (never materializes). Graduates with a B.A. in English. Joins the Federal Theater Project in New York City to write radio plays and scripts, having turned down a much better paying offer to work as a scriptwriter for Twentieth Century Fox, in Hollywood.
1939 Writes Listen My Children, and You’re Next with Norman Rosten. Federal Theater is shut down and has to go on relief. William Ireland’s Confession airs on Columbia Workshop (CBS).
1940 Travels to North Carolina to collect dialect speech for the folk division of the Library of Congress. Marries Mary Grace Slattery. Writes The Golden Years. Meets Clifford Odets in a second-hand bookstore. The Pussycat and the Plumber Who Was a Man, a radio play airs on Columbia Workshop (CBS);.
1941 Takes extra job working nightshift as a shipfitter’s helper at the Brooklyn Naval Yard. Writes other radio plays, Joel Chandler Harris, and Captain Paul.
1942 Writes radio plays The Battle of the Ovens, Thunder from the Mountains (starring Orson Welles), I Was Married in Bataan, Toward a Farther Star, The Eagle’s Nest, and The Four Freedoms.
1943 Writes The Half-Bridge, and one-act, That They May Win, produced in New York City. Writes Listen for the Sound of Wings (radio play).
1944 Daughter, Jane, is born. “Ditchy” short story published in Mayfair Magazine. Writes radio plays Bernadine, I Love You, Grandpa and the Statue, and The Phillipines Never Surrendered. Adapts Ferenc Molnar’s The Guardsman and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice for the radio. Having toured army camps to research for The Story of G.I. Joe (a film for which he wrote the initial draft screenplay, but later withdrew from project when he saw they would not let him write it his way), he publishes book about experience, Situation Normal . . . . The Man Who Had All The Luck premiers on Broadway but closes after six performances (including 2 previews), though receives the Theater Guild National Award.
1945 Focus (novel) published. Writes Listen for the Sound of Wings (radio play). Writes “Should Ezra Pound Be Shot?” for New Masses (article).
1946 Adapts George Abbott’s and John C. Holm’s Three Men on a Horse for radio. “The Plaster Masks” short story published in Encore.
1947 All My Sons premiers and receives the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, and the Donaldson Award. “It Takes a Thief” short story published in Collier’s Weekly. Son, Robert, is born. Writes The Story of Gus (radio play). Writes “Subsidized Theatre” for The New York Times (article). Goes to work for a short time in an inner city factory assembling beer boxes for minimum wage to stay in touch with his audience. Gives first interview to John K. Hutchens, for The New York Times. Explores the Red Hook area and tries to get into the world of the longshoremen there, and find out about Pete Panto, whose story would form the nucleus of his screenplay The Hook. Buys farmhouse in Roxbury Connecticut as a vacation home, and 31 Grace Court in the city.
1948 Built himself the small Connecticut studio in which he wrote Death of a Salesman. Trip to Europe with Vinny Longhi where got sense of the Italian background he would use for the Carbones and their relatives, also met some Jewish deathcamp survivors held captive in a post-war tangle of bureaucracy.
1949 Death of a Salesman premiers and receives the Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, the Antoinette Perry Award, the Donaldson Award, and the Theater Club Award, among others. New York Times publishes “Tragedy and the Common Man” (essay). Attends the pro-Soviet Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to chair an arts panel with Odets and Dmitri Shostakovich.
1950 Adaption of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People premiers. First sound recording of Death of a Salesman.
1951 Meets Marilyn Monroe for the first time. The Hook fails to reach production due to pressure from HUAC. Yiddish production of Death of a Salesman, translated by Joseph Buloff (this is a much shorter version of the play). First film production of Death of a Salesman, with Frederic March, for Columbia Pictures. Ingeborg Morath comes to America. “Monte Sant’ Angelo” short story published in Harper’s Magazine.
1952 Visits the Historical Society “Witch Museum” in Salem, to research for The Crucible.
1953 The Crucible premiers and receives the Antoinette Perry Award, and the Donaldson Award. Tried his hand at directing, a production of All My Sons for the Arden, Delaware, summer theater.
1954 Asked to attend the Belgian premier of The Crucible, but unable to attend as denied passport by the US. First radio production of Death of a Salesman, on NBC.
1955 The one-act A View From the Bridge premiers in a joint bill with A Memory of Two Mondays. HUAC pressured city officials to withdraw permission for Miller to make a film he’d been planning about New York juvenile delinquency.
1956 Lives in Nevada for six weeks in order to divorce Mary Slattery and gets the material for The Misfits. Marries Marilyn Monroe. Subpoenaed to appear before HUAC. Receives honorary Doctor of Human Letters (L.H.D.) from the University of Michigan. Goes to England with Monroe and meets Laurence Olivier. Revises A View From the Bridge into two acts for Peter Brook to produce in London, England.
1957 Arthur Miller’s Collected Plays published with a lengthy introductory essay by Miller. Convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to name names to the House Un-American Activities Committee. Short story “The Misfits” is published in Esquire. First television production of Death of a Salesman, on ITA, England. First film version of The Crucible, retitled Les Sorcières de Salem, with a screenplay by Jean-Paul Sartre, released in France and Germany.
1958 United States Court of Appeals overturns his contempt conviction. Elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
1959 Receives the Gold Medal for Drama from the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
1960 “Please Don’t Kill Anything” short story published in Story.
1961 Divorces Marilyn Monroe. “The Prophecy” short story published in Esquire. The Misfits (film) premiers. Recorded The Crucible: An Opera in Four Acts by Robert Ward and Bernard Stambler. Sidney Lumet directs a movie version of View From a Bridge. Renzo Rossellini adapts View from a Bridge into an Italian opera, Uno sguardo dal ponte. Mother, Augusta Miller dies.
1962 Marries Inge Morath. Marilyn Monroe dies. “Glimpse at a Jockey” short story published in Story.
1963 Daughter, Rebecca, is born. Jane’s Blanket (children’s book) published.
1964 After visiting the Mauthausen death camp with Inge, covered the Nazi trials in Frankfurt, Germany for the New York Herald Tribune. After the Fall and Incident at Vichy premier at the new Lincoln Center.
1965 Elected president of International P.E.N., the international literary organization, and went to Yugoslavian conference. Ulu Grosbard’s Off-Broadway production of A View from the Bridge.
1966 First sound recording of A View From the Bridge. Father, Isidore Miller dies. “Recognitions” (later retitled “Fame”) short story published in Esquire. “A Search for a Future” short story published in Saturday Evening Post.
1967 I Don’t Need You Anymore (short stories) published, all stories previously published except for “Fitter’s Night.” Sound recording of Incident at Vichy. Television production of The Crucible, on CBS. Visited Moscow to persuade Soviet writers to join P.E.N. Son Daniel born. Rossellini’s opera of View, Uno sguardo dal ponte premiers in the US.
1968 The Price premiers. Attends the Democratic National Convention in Chicago as the delegate from Roxbury. Sound recording of After the Fall.
1969 In Russia published (reportage with photographs by Inge Morath). Visited Czechoslovakia to show support for writers there and briefly met Václav Havel. Retired as President of P.E.N.
1970 One acts Fame and The Reason Why produced, the latter also filmed on his estate. Miller’s works are banned in the Soviet Union as a result of his work to free dissident writers.
1971 Sound recording of An Enemy of the People. Television productions of A Memory of Two Mondays, on PBS and The Price, on NBC. The Portable Arthur Miller is published by Penguin.
1972 The Creation of the World and Other Business premiers. Attends the Democratic National Convention in Miami as a delegate. First sound recording of The Crucible.
1973 Television production of Incident at Vichy, on PBS.
1974 Up From Paradise (musical version of The Creation of the World and Other Business ) premiers at the University of Michigan. Television production of After the Fall, on NBC.Creation performed in the UK as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival by the Tangent Theatre Company. “Rain in a Strange City” poem published in Travel and Leisure.
1976 “Ham Sandwich” (very short story) and “The Poosidin’s Resignation” (satirical short play) both published in Boston University Quarterly.
1977 In the Country published (reportage with Inge Morath). Miller petitions the Czech government to halt arrests of dissident writers. The Archbishop’s Ceiling premiers in Washington, D.C.
1978 The Theater Essays of Arthur Miller, edited by Robert A. Martin published. Fame (film) appears on NBC. Belgian National Theatre does 25th anniversary production of The Crucible, and this time Miller can attend. “The 1928 Buick” short story published in Atlantic Monthly. “White Puppies” short story published in Esquire.
1979 Chinese Encounters published (reportage with Inge Morath).
1980 Playing for Time (film) appears on CBS. The American Clock premiers at the Spoleto Festical in South Carolina, then opens later in New York City. TV film Arthur Miller on Home Ground shown on PBS.
1981 The second volume of Arthur Miller’s Collected Plays published.
1982 One acts Elegy for a Lady and Some Kind of Love Story are produced under the title 2 by A.M. in Connecticut.
1983 Directs Death of a Salesman at the People’s Art Theater in Beijing, the People’s Republic of China.
1984 Salesman in Beijing is published. Elegy and Some Kind are published under the new title Two-Way Mirror. Miller receives Kennedy Center Honors for his lifetime achievement. Death of a Salesman revived on stage with Dustin Hoffman.
1985 Death of a Salesman with Dustin Hoffman airs on CBS to an audience of 25 million. Miller goes to Turkey with Harold Pinter for International PEN. A delegate at a meeting of Soviet and American writers in Vilnius, Lithuania, where tried to persuade the Soviets to stop persecuting writers.
1986 I Think About You a Great Deal is published (monologue). One of fifteen writers and scientists invited to the Soviet Union to conference with Mikhail Gorbachov and discuss Soviet policies. British production of The Archbishop’s Ceiling, with a restored script.
1987 One acts I Can’t Remember Anything and Clara are produced under the title Danger: Memory! Publishes Timebends: A Life (autobiography), which appeared as a Book -of the-Month Club popular selection. University of East Anglia names its centre for American studies, the Arthur Miller Centre. The Golden Years is premiered on BBC Radio. Television production of All My Sons, on PBS.
1990 Everybody Wins, a film based on Some Kind, is released. Television production of Miller’s translation of An Enemy of the People, on PBS.“Bees” short story published in Michigan Quarterly Review.
1991 The one-act The Last Yankee is produced. The Ride Down Mt. Morgan is premiered in London, England. Receives Mellon Bank Award for lifetime achievement in the humanities. Television production of Clara, and an interview on A&E. South Bank Show television special on Miller in the UK.
1992 Homely Girl (novella) is published, firstly in Grand Street, and then with two earlier short stories (“Fame” and “Fitter’s Night”) in its own edition.
1993 Expanded version of The Last Yankee premiers. Television production of The American Clock, on TNT.
1994 Broken Glass premiers in US and UK, in the UK it wins the Olivier Award for Best Play. Interviewed on The Charley Rose Show, PBS.
1995 Receives William Inge Festival Award for distinguished achievement in American theater. Tributes to the playwright on the occasion of his eightieth birthday are held in England and America. Homely Girl, A Life and Other Stories is published (novella and short stories). “Lola’s Lament” poem, published in Unleashed, Poem’s by Writers’ Dogs.
1996 Receives the Edward Albee Last Frontier Playwright Award. Revised and expanded book of Theater Essays, edited by Robert A. Martin and Steven R. Centola is published.
1997 Revised version of The Ride Down Mt. Morgan is given its American Premier in Williamstown, MA. The Crucible (film with Daniel Day Lewis) opens. BBC television production of Broken Glass.
1998 Mr. Peters’ Connections premiers with Peter Falk in the lead role as part of the Signature Theatre’s season of Miller’s work. Major revival of A View From the Bridge with Anthony LaPaglia wins two Tony Awards. Is named as the Distinguished Inaugural Senior Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin. Revised version of The Ride Down Mt. Morgan appears on Broadway, starring Patrick Stewart. “Waiting for the Teacher” poem published in Harper’s Magazine.
1999 Death of a Salesman revived on Broadway with Brian Dennehy for the play’s 50th anniversary, and wins Tony for Best Revival of a Play. Another Opera version of A View from the Bridge, with music by William Bolcom and a libretto by Arthur Miller, premiered at Lyric Opera of Chicago.
2000 The Ride Down Mount Morgan appears again on Broadway, also a revival of The Price. There are major 85th birthday celebrations for Miller held at University of Michigan and at the Arthur Miller Center at UEA, England. Echoes Down the Corridor is published (collected essays from 1944-2000), edited by Steve A. Centola.
2001 Untitled, a previously unpublished one act written for Vaclav Havel appears in New York. Williamstown Theater Festival revives The Man Who Had All the Luck. Focus, a film based on the book, is made with William H. Macy. Miller is awarded a NEH Fellowship and the John H. Finley Award for Exemplary Service to New York City. On Politics and the Art of Acting is published (lengthy essay based on his Jefferson Lecture given when received the NEH Fellowship). Movie originally titled Plain Jane, based on Miller’s novella Homely Girl, A Life is released on video in Europe under the new title Eden, but not in the US. Miller plays a small role in the movie (Jane’s dying father–filmed in Roxbury). “Bulldog” short story published in New Yorker.
2002 New York City revivals of The Man Who Had All the Luck, with Chris O’Donnell, and The Crucible, with Liam Neeson. Inge Morath dies. Premier of Resurrection Blues. Awarded the International Spanish Award: Premio Prìncipe de Asturias de las Letras. “The Bare Manuscript” and “The Performance” short stories published in New Yorker.
2003 Awarded the Jerusalem Prize. Brother, Kermit Miller dies on October 17th. “The Presence” short story published inEsquire.
2004 New York City revival of After the Fall with Peter Berg. Premier of Finishing the Picture.
2005 Miller dies of heart failure in his Connecticut home on 10th February. Memorial Services held in Roxbury and NY. Miller’s estate donates 55 acres along Tophet Road, to the Roxbury Land Trust, to become the Arthur Miller and Inge Morath Miller Preserve. “Beavers” short story posthumously published in Harper’s Magazine. “The Turpentine Still” fairly long short story published in Southwest Review.
AMS statement: Arthur Miller died with the same dignity by which he had always lived, at his home in Connecticut on February 10th, at the age of 89, and he will be greatly missed by all who knew him or his work. A great writer, a staunch humanitarian, and vital human being, his biggest legacy is his writing, and he has thankfully left us with a great wealth. It will be the society’s privilege to continue to promote and study this national treasure.
The following obituary was printed in the New York Times on 2/14/05:
The Arthur Miller Society
recognizes the artistry, moral authority,
and human solidarity of our mentor.
We thank Arthur Miller because
you leave us our name and social mission
2008 Presence: Stories (2008), a posthumous collection of short stories, mostly previously published in magazines.
2009 Methuen releases a six volume set that contains all of Miller’s dramatic works, including Finishing the Picture. A film version ofThe Man Who Had All the Luck, directed by Scott Ellis with screenplay by Rebecca Miller, was scheduled for release, but then shelved.
2010 A film version of The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, directed by Nicole Kassell, starring Michael Douglas–was completed, but never released.
2012 New York City revival of Death of a Salesman with Philip Seymour Hoffman wins two Tony Awards (Best Revival and Best Direction).
2013 Timebends: A Life is released on Kindle.
2014 Two new ballets created based on The Crucible (in California and Scotland). Ivo van Hove’s stripped down production of A View from the Bridge opens at Young Vic in London; this is also filmed to be screened in cinemas by National Theatre Live.
2015 Stage premiers in England of both The Hook (adapted from Miller’s screenplay), and his first ever play, No Villain. The Royal Shakespeare Company also mount Death of a Salesman with Sir Anthony Sher in the lead role. In New York, a new extended Yiddish language version of Death of a Salesman. Off-Broadway sees successful revival of Incident at Vichy that is also televised. Numerous events and performances worldwide to celebrate Miller’s centennial, including an international conference at St. Francis College, in Brooklyn. Complete Collected Essays edited by Matthew Roudané is published by Bloomsbury. Library of America completes its 3 volume collection of Miller’s plays, edited by Tony Kushner (third volume contains a fair amount of earlier unpublished material).
2016 New York City revivals of A View from the Bridge and The Crucible (both directed by Ivo Van Hove)–A View from the Bridge wins Tony awards for Best Revival and best Direction of a drama. The Arthur Miller Foundation celebrated Arthur Miller’s 100th Birthday with a star-studded, one-night-only performance of Miller’s seminal works. Penguin publishes Collected Essays, edited by Susan C. W. Abbotson, with the essays thematically grouped. Penguin publishes Presence: Collected Stories, containing most of the published short fiction in one volume. Oct. 17th an updated website for the Arthur Miller Society was launched and the Historic Landmarks Preservation Center of the New York State Council on the Arts recognized one of the residences where Miller lived in Brooklyn Heights–62 Montague Street–the first Brooklyn apartment Miller lived after his marriage to Mary Slattery.
2017 Broadway revival of The Price with all-star cast: Tony Shalhoub (Walter), John Turturro (Victor), Jessica Hecht (Esther), and Danny DeVito (Solomon). DeVito won a Drama Desk Award. Revival of Incident at Vichy does well in London’s Finborough Theatre. Rebecca Miller released a documentary about her father, Arthur Miller: Writer and showed it at several film festivals.
2018 Arthur Miller: Writer on HBO beginning in March. Finborough Theatre produces UK premier of Finishing the Picture. Opera version of A Memory of Two Mondays performed."

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