Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915. His family was wealthy, early on. However, Miller's father's company collapsed at the beginning of the Great Depression. As a result, Miller's family was forced to move to Brooklyn, NY. Miller finished high school, but because of his ...
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Arthur Miller, American playwright who combined social awareness with a searching concern for his characters’ inner lives. He is best known for Death of a Salesman (1949). His other notable plays included The Crucible. Learn more about Miller’s life an
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ArthurMiller,thesonofawomen'sclothingcompanyowner,wasbornin1915inNewYorkCity.HisfatherlosthisbusinessintheDepressionandthefamilywasforcedtomovetoasmallerhomeinBrooklyn.Aftergraduatingfromhighschool,Millerworkedjobsrangingfromradiosingertotruckdrivertoclerkinanautomobile-partswarehouse.Millerbeganwritingplaysasastudent...
The affluent Miller family lost almost everything in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, and had to move from Manhattan to Flatbush, Brooklyn. After graduating high school, Miller worked a few odd jobs to save enough money to attend the University of Michigan. While in college, he wrote for the...
During the Depression, Arthur worked at many jobs to earn money for college. In nineteen thirty-four, he began studying English at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Miller won an award for writing plays while at school. Miller returned home...
Miller was only an average student. He was much more fond of playing sports than doing his schoolwork. Only after graduating from high school in 1932 did Miller think about becoming a writer, when he read Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky's (1821–1881) The Brothers Karamazov. Miller atten...
readingadventurestories,andappearinggenerallyasanonintellectual."IfIhadanyideologyatallitwaswhatIhadlearnedfromHearstnewspapers,"heoncesaid.Aftergraduatingfromahighschoolin1932,Millerworkedinautomobilepartswarehousetoearnmoneyforcollege.HavingreadDostoevsky'snovelTheBrothersKaramazovMillerdecidedtobecomeawriter.Tostudy...
ArthurMillerwasborninamiddleclassJewishfamilyinNewYork.Hisfatherhadbeenaprosperousclothingmanufacturerwhowas,however,ruinedbythecrashofthe1929.MillerfinishedhighschoolduringtheDepressionwhenhisfamilysuddenlybecamepoor.Hewenttoworkinawarehousewherehesawtheinjusticesofthecapitalistsystemandthehardshipsofworkers.Thenhesaved...