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Arthur Miller (1915-2005) was born in New York City and studied at the University of Michigan. His plays include The Man Who Had All the Luck (1944), All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), A View from the Bridge (1956), After the Fall (1964), Incident at Vichy (1964), The Price (1968), The American Clock (1980), Playing for Time (1980), The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (1991), The Last Yankee (1993), Broken Glass (1994) and Resurrection Blues (2002). He wrote the novel Focus (1945), cinema novel The Misfits (1961), and texts for In Russia (1969), In the Country (1977), and Chinese Encounters (1979), three books in collaboration with his wife, the photographer Inge Morath. His memoirs are ‘Salesman’ in Beijing (1984) and Timebends: A Life (1987). His short fiction has been collected in I Don’t Need You Any More (1967), Homely Girl (1995), Presence (2007) and Presence: Collected Stories (2015).  His essays have been collected in The Theater Essays of Arthur Miller (1978), Echoes Down the Corridor (2000) and Arthur Miller: Collected Essays (2016).

After writing his first play in 1936, he was awarded the Avery Hopwood Award for Playwriting at University of Michigan.  Among other honors that followed, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the John F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, Emmy Awards, Tony Awards for his plays, and a Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement.  He was named Jefferson Lecturer for the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2001 and titled his speech “On Politics and the Art of Acting.”  International honors included the Olivier Award, the Prix Molière and the Jerusalem Prize.

In 1965 he was the first American elected president of International PEN, for his work supporting free speech and fighting censorship, as well as encouraging translations for literature to travel beyond borders. In 2005 PEN America established the annual Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture to honor his lifelong commitment.  Miller’s decades-long activism against wrongful conviction and capital punishment continues to inspire criminal justice reform.

Miller’s legacy also lives on through two independent, grassroots 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations: the Arthur Miller Writing Studio organization in Roxbury, Connecticut (https://www.arthurmillerstudio.org), which sustains Arthur Miller’s legacy as a writer and an activist and helps to establish collaborative educational opportunities around the world, and the Arthur Miller Foundation (https://arthurmillerfoundation.org), which increases equitable access to quality theater education for public school students by certifying and supporting teachers to build sustainable in-school theater programs.