Growing up in Philadelphia, I had from childhood heard the story about the pre-Broadway opening of “Death of a Salesman” in 1949. A hushed silence filled the Locust Street Theatre as the curtain fell.

On May 2, 1949, Arthur Miller, then 33, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for “Death of a Salesman.” It was one of several remarkable moments in what was, for Miller, a remarkable year. “Death ...

Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Arthur Miller, licensed under CC-BY-SA, ...

Art imitates life, and that is certainly true in the case of the playwright Arthur Miller (1915–2005), whose personal and professional life defined and added verisimilitude to his vast body of work.

In the first biography of illustrious American playwright Arthur Miller since his death at age 89, University of Michigan theater professor Brater offers a concise study that, undivided by chapters ...

When he was a young, unknown playwright, Arthur Miller bristled over an early setback. In 1938, the Group Theatre was interested in his comedy “The Grass Still Grows,” about a coat factory owner and ...

Rebecca Miller, the filmmaker and writer, has as good a sense as anyone of the events associated with the playwright Arthur Miller: his meteoric rise in the theater, his tangles with the House ...

ARTHUR MILLER: His Life and Work. By Martin Gottfried. Da Capo, $30; 480 pp. WHO could deny that Arthur Miller is one of America's greatest playwrights? That Death of a Salesman, Miller's masterpiece, ...