American Playwrights

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Miller, Arthur (1915-2005)

Arthur Miller (1915-2005) was an American playwright and essayists and is regarded as one of the most important dramatists of the twentieth century. His work is a reflection of the time in which he lived - the Depression, the Holocaust, and McCarthyism - are social and political dramas of the twentieth and twenty-first century.

'The plays are my autobiography. I can't write plays that don't sum up where I am. I'm in all of them.

I don't know how else to go about writing.'

Taken from an interview with Arthur Miller for a series of BBC radio programs in the Summer of 1995.

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Biography of Arthur Miller

  • Arthur Miller: a life by Martin Gottfried. This first full biography reveals the relationships between Arthur Miller's life and his work, from the early, autobiographical plays to her personal and political references in After the Fall. Martin Gottfried crafts the complete life and work of a man his century, a nation's conscience and an international legend of the theatre.

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