Arthur Asher Miller ( English Arthur Asher Miller ; October 17, 1915 , New York , USA - February 10, 2005 , Roxbury (Connecticut) , Connecticut , USA ) - American playwright and prose writer, author of the famous play "The Death of the Salesman, " for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize . The third husband is Marilyn Monroe .
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| Birth name | Arthur Asher Miller |
| Aliases | Jonathan lovelett |
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| A place of death | Roxbury (Connecticut) , Connecticut , USA |
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| Occupation | playwright , novelist |
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| Awards | Prince of Asturias Prize ( 2002 ) [d] Imperial prize Tony Award to the best author ( 1947 ) Tony Award to the best author ( 1949 ) Pulitzer Prize For The Best Drama ( 1949 ) Tony Award for Best Play ( 1949 ) Tony Award for Best Play ( 1953 ) [d] ( 1980 ) Emmy Award for Best Screenplay of a Mini Series, Film, or Drama Program ( 1981 ) Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Drama ( 1995 ) [d] ( 2001 ) Jerusalem Prize ( 2003 ) [d] ( 2003 ) |
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| Artworks on the site Lib.ru | |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 Personal life
- 2 Artworks
- 2.1 plays
- 2.2 Novels
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Biography
Arthur Miller was born on October 17, 1915 in Harlem and was the middle of three children in a family of Polish-Jewish immigrants - Isidora and Augusta Miller. His father, the owner of a women's clothing factory with about 400 employees, was a successful and respected member of the community, which allowed his family to live on 110 Russian street in Manhattan , own a bungalow on the Rockaway Peninsula ( Long Island ) and have a driver. However, having invested most of his fortune in stocks, during the economic crisis of 1929 he lost everything, and the family was forced to move to Brooklyn . As a teenager, Arthur Miller delivered bread to his home every morning to help his family [6] .
In 1938, Arthur Miller graduated from the University of Michigan . After the outbreak of World War II, Miller began working as a reporter at a military shipyard in Brooklyn, visiting military garrisons. For six months, he collected materials for the film Ernie Pile "The History of Private Joe" .
In 1947, Miller ’s drama “All My Sons” was released , which brought him fame and was awarded the Association of New York Theater Critics and the Donaldson Prize.
In 1949, the play “The Death of a Salesman ” was set, which is considered the best work of the playwright. He received the Pulitzer Prize , the New York Theater Critics Association Award , and the Antoinette Perry Award (Tony).
In 1953, the drama "The Ordeal" was released about the trial of the “Salem witches,” which paralleled the activities of the Senator McCarthy Commission , which made Miller a defendant in the “black list” of Hollywood . In the same year, the work was awarded the Tony and Donaldson Prizes.
Arthur Asher Miller died on February 10, 2005 in Roxbury ( Connecticut , USA ) from acute heart failure.
Personal life
Miller was relieved of military service due to a knee injury that he received at school.
In 1940, Miller married Mary Grace Slatteri, from whom he has two children.
In 1956, Miller married Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe . In 1961, a year before the death of Monroe, they divorced.
A year later, he married the Austrian photographer Inge Morat , who gave birth to two children: daughter Rebecca and son Daniel, who was born with Down syndrome . Rebecca is married to three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis .
Artwork
Pieces
- “Not a Villain” (No Villain, 1936)
- “And they revolted” (They Too Arise, 1937; revised play “Not a villain”)
- Honors at Dawn (Honors at Dawn, 1938; revised play, And They Risen)
- “The Grass Still Grows” (The Grass Still Grows, 1938; revised play “And They Risen”)
- The Great Disobedience (1938)
- “Listen, my children” (Listen My Children, 1939; co-authored with Norman Rosten)
- The Golden Years (The Golden Years, 1940)
- The Man Who Had All The Luck (1940)
- The Half-Bridge (The Half-Bridge, 1943)
- “ All My Sons ” (All My Sons, 1947)
- The Death of a Salesman (Death of a Salesman, 1949)
- “Enemy of the People” (An Enemy of the People, 1950; translation of the play by G. Ibsen )
- The Crucible (The Crucible, 1953)
- “ View from the Bridge ” (A View from the Bridge, 1955)
- “The Memory of Two Mondays” (A Memory of Two Mondays, 1955)
- “After the Fall” (After the Fall, 1964)
- “ It Happened in Vichy ” (Incident at Vichy, 1964)
- The Price (The Price, 1968)
- "Creation of the World and Other Business" (The Creation of the World and Other Business, 1972)
- The Ceiling of the Archbishop (The Archbishop's Ceiling, 1977)
- The Watch of America (The American Clock, 1980)
- Elegy for a Lady (Elegy for a Lady, 1982)
- “Playing for Time” (Playing for Time, 1985)
- “I Think About You a Great Deal, 1986)
- “I Can't Remember Anything” (I Can't Remember Anything, 1987)
- “Clara” (Clara, 1987)
- The Last Yankee (1991)
- Descent from Mount Morgan (The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, 1991)
- Broken Glass (Broken Glass, 1994)
- “Mr. Peter's Connections, 1998”
- The Blues of Resurrection (Resurrection Blues, 2002)
- Finishing the Picture (Finishing the Picture, 2004)
Novels
- “Focus” (Focus, 1945)
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Internet Broadway Database - 2000.
- ↑ Miller Arthur // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ed. A. M. Prokhorov - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1969.
- ↑ Garner, Dwight . Some Like It Hot, Some Like It Literary: A Playwright's Life, With Marilyn (The English) , The New York Times (June 2, 2009). Date of treatment August 4, 2013.
Links
- Arthur Miller Biography
- Arthur Miller Biography in GQ Magazine
- Arthur Miller on the Internet Movie Database
- Focus (novel)