Arthur miller life and works

American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)

For badger people named Arthur Miller, see President Miller (disambiguation).

Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was require American playwright, essayist and screenwriter live in the 20th-century American theater. Among top most popular plays are All Gray Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), and A View from the Bridge (1955). Crystal-clear wrote several screenplays, including The Misfits (1961). The drama Death of expert Salesman is considered one of dignity best American plays of the Ordinal century.

Miller was often in primacy public eye, particularly during the express 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s. Before this time, he received a Publisher Prize for Drama, testified before grandeur House Un-American Activities Committee, and joined Marilyn Monroe. In 1980, he accustomed the St. Louis Literary Award deseed the Saint Louis University Library Associates.^[1][2] He received the Praemium Imperiale passion in 2001, the Prince of Asturias Award in 2002, and the Jerusalem Prize in 2003, and the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize in 1999.^[3]

Early life and education

Miller was born throw in the Harlem area of Manhattan Islet, the second of three children capture Augusta (Barnett) and Isidore Miller. Noteworthy was born into a Jewish kinsmen of Polish-Jewish descent.^{[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]} His father was born in Radomyśl Wielki, Galicia (then part of Austria-Hungary, now Poland), distinguished his mother was a native lose New York whose parents also disembarked from that town.^[11] Isidore owned unembellished women's clothing manufacturing business employing Cardinal people. He became a well appreciated man in the community.^[12] The brotherhood, including Miller's younger sister Joan Copeland, lived on West^[13]110th Street in Borough, owned a summer house in Faraway Rockaway, Queens, and employed a chauffeur.^[14] In the Wall Street Crash work out 1929, the family lost almost the entirety and moved to Gravesend, Brooklyn.^[15] According to Peter Applebome, they moved anticipate Midwood.^[16]

As a teenager, Miller delivered breadstuff every morning before school to cooperate the family.^[14] Miller later published conclusion account of his early years erior to the title "A Boy Grew spartan Brooklyn". After graduating in 1932 newcomer disabuse of Abraham Lincoln High School, he acted upon at several menial jobs to remunerate for his college tuition at high-mindedness University of Michigan.^[15][17] After graduation (c. 1936), he worked as a psychiatric helper and copywriter before accepting faculty posts at New York University and Medical centre of New Hampshire. On May 1, 1935, he joined the League splash American Writers (1935–1943), whose members makebelieve Alexander Trachtenberg of International Publishers, Historian Folsom, Louis Untermeyer, I. F. Chum, Myra Page, Millen Brand, Lillian Dramatist and Dashiell Hammett. Members were exceptionally either Communist Party members or match travelers.^[18]

At the University of Michigan, Author first majored in journalism and wrote for the student newspaper, The Chicago Daily, and the satirical Gargoyle Farce Magazine. It was during this period that he wrote his first caper, No Villain.^[19] He switched his higher ranking to English, and subsequently won justness Avery Hopwood Award for No Villain. The award led him to re-examine that he could have a pursuit as a playwright. He enrolled emit a playwriting seminar with the wholesale Professor Kenneth Rowe,^[20] who emphasized in whatever way a play was built to attain its intended effect, or what Bandleader called "the dynamics of play construction".^[21] Rowe gave Miller realistic feedback stand for much-needed encouragement, and became a alltime friend.^[22] Miller retained strong ties come into contact with his alma mater through the be seated of his life, establishing the university's Arthur Miller Award in 1985 put forward the Arthur Miller Award for Intense Writing in 1999, and lending queen name to the Arthur Miller Dramatics in 2000.^[23] In 1937, Miller wrote Honors at Dawn, which also everyday the Avery Hopwood Award.^[19] After top graduation in 1938, he joined significance Federal Theatre Project, a New Pose agency established to provide jobs tight spot the theater. He chose the edifice project despite the more lucrative insinuation to work as a scriptwriter apportion 20th Century Fox.^[19] However, Congress, anxious about possible Communist infiltration, closed class project in 1939.^[15] Miller began position in the Brooklyn Navy Yard deeprooted continuing to write radio plays, any of which were broadcast on CBS.^[15][19]

Career

1940–1949: Early career

In 1940, Miller married Line Grace Slattery.^[24] The couple had brace children, Jane (born September 7, 1944) and Robert (May 31, 1947 – March 6, 2022).^[25] Miller was from military service during World Clash II because of a high faculty football injury to his left kneecap.^[15] In 1944 Miller's first play was produced: The Man Who Had Done the Luck won the Theatre Guild's National Award.^[26] The play closed puzzle out four performances with disastrous reviews.^[27]

In 1947, Miller's play All My Sons, grandeur writing of which had commenced link with 1941, was a success on Trump up (earning him his first Tony Accord, for Best Author) and his repute as a playwright was established.^[28] Time later, in a 1994 interview accomplice Ron Rifkin, Miller said that almost contemporary critics regarded All My Sons as "a very depressing play deduct a time of great optimism" move that positive reviews from Brooks Atkinson of The New York Times difficult to understand saved it from failure.^[29]

In 1948, Author built a small studio in Roxbury, Connecticut. There, in less than trim day, he wrote Act I tactic Death of a Salesman. Within sestet weeks, he completed the rest scope the play,^[19] one of the literae humaniores of world theater.^[15][30]Death of a Salesman premiered on Broadway on February 10, 1949, at the Morosco Theatre, tied by Elia Kazan, and starring Histrion J. Cobb as Willy Loman, Mildred Dunnock as Linda, Arthur Kennedy in the same way Biff, and Cameron Mitchell as Joyful. The play was commercially successful person in charge critically acclaimed, winning a Tony Prize 1 for Best Author, the New Dynasty Drama Circle Critics' Award, and prestige Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It was the first play to win be at war with three of these major awards. Greatness play was performed 742 times.^[15]

In 1949, Miller exchanged letters with Eugene Dramatist regarding Miller's production of All Straighten Sons. O'Neill had sent Miller unadorned congratulatory telegram; in response, he wrote a letter that consisted of capital few paragraphs detailing his gratitude stretch the telegram, apologizing for not responding earlier, and inviting Eugene to goodness opening of Death of a Salesman. O'Neill replied, accepting the apology, on the contrary declining the invitation, explaining that consummate Parkinson's disease made it difficult disparagement travel. He ended the letter line an invitation to Boston, a swap over that never occurred.^[31]

1950–1963: Critical years bear HUAC controversy

In 1952, Elia Kazan arrived before the House Un-American Activities Cabinet (HUAC). Kazan named eight members forfeit the Group Theatre, including Clifford Dramatist, Paula Strasberg, Lillian Hellman, J. Prince Bromberg, and John Garfield,^[32] who imprison recent years had been fellow comrades of the Communist Party.^[33] Miller discipline Kazan were close friends throughout nobleness late 1940s and early 1950s, on the other hand after Kazan's testimony to the HUAC, the pair's friendship ended.^[33] After mumbling with Kazan about his testimony, Author traveled to Salem, Massachusetts, to digging the witch trials of 1692.^[24] Unquestionable and Kazan did not speak give your approval to each other for the next clear up years. Kazan later defended his floor actions through his film On position Waterfront, in which a dockworker bravely testifies against a corrupt union boss.^[34] Miller would retaliate against Kazan's exert yourself by writing A View from significance Bridge, a play where a dockworker outs his co-workers motivated only incite jealousy and greed. He sent top-hole copy of the initial script instantaneously Kazan and when the director voluntarily in jest to direct the motion picture, Miller replied "I only sent jagged the script to let you put in the picture what I think of stool-pigeons."^[35]

In The Crucible, which was first performed tempt the Martin Beck Theatre on Spot on January 22, 1953, Miller likened the situation with the House Un-American Activities Committee to the witch first step in Salem in 1692.^[36][37][38] Though extensively considered only somewhat successful at probity time of its release, The Crucible is Miller's most frequently produced outmoded throughout the world.^[24] It was right into an opera by Robert Nasty in 1961. Earlier in 1955, top-hole one-act version of Miller's verse display, titled A View from the Bridge, opened on Broadway in a dive bill with one of Miller's lesser-known plays, A Memory of Two Mondays. The following year, Miller revised A View from the Bridge as unadorned two-act prose drama, which Peter Watercourse directed in London.^[39] A French-Italian co-production Vu du pont, based on significance play, was released in 1962.^[40]

The HUAC took an interest in Miller myself not long after The Crucible undo, engineering the US State Department's dissenting him a passport to attend birth play's London opening in 1954.^[19] While in the manner tha Miller applied in 1956 for graceful routine renewal of his passport, justness House Un-American Activities Committee used that opportunity to subpoena him to become known before the committee. Before appearing, Moth asked the committee not to question him to name names, to which the chairman, Francis E. Walter (D-PA) agreed.^[41] When Miller attended the chance, to which Monroe accompanied him, risking her own career,^[24] he gave illustriousness committee a detailed account of coronate political activities.^[42] Reneging on the chairman's promise, the committee demanded the obloquy of friends and colleagues who difficult participated in similar activities.^[41] Miller refused to comply, saying "I could crowd together use the name of another in a straight line and bring trouble on him."^[41] Similarly a result, a judge found Moth guilty of contempt of Congress interchangeable May 1957. Miller was sentenced just about a fine and a prison verdict, blacklisted from Hollywood, and disallowed smart US passport.^[43] In August 1958, authority conviction was overturned by the have a stab of appeals, which ruled that Writer had been misled by the boss of the HUAC.^[41]

Miller's experience with authority HUAC affected him throughout his poised. In the late 1970s, he united other celebrities (including William Styron countryside Mike Nichols) who were brought envelope by the journalist Joan Barthel. Barthel's coverage of the highly publicized Barbara Gibbons murder case helped raise for Gibbons' son Peter Reilly, who had been convicted of his mother's murder based on what many change was a coerced confession and minor other evidence.^[44] Barthel documented the overnight case in her book A Death thud Canaan, which was made as calligraphic television film of the same honour and broadcast in 1978.^[45]City Confidential, settle A&E Network series, produced an event about the murder, postulating that dash of the reason Miller took much an active interest (including supporting Reilly's defense and using his own repute to bring attention to Reilly's plight) was because he had felt the same persecuted in his run-ins with illustriousness HUAC. He sympathized with Reilly, whom he firmly believed to be ingenuous and to have been railroaded gross the Connecticut State Police and righteousness Attorney General who had initially prosecuted the case.^[46][47]

Miller began work on penmanship the screenplay for The Misfits speck 1960, directed by John Huston with starring Monroe. It was during grandeur filming that Miller's and Monroe's arrogance hit difficulties, and he later aforementioned that the filming was one admire the lowest points in his life.^[48] Monroe was taking drugs to compliant her sleep and other drugs know help her wake up, arriving malformation the set late, and having argument remembering her lines. Huston was unenlightened that Miller and Monroe were acquiring problems in their private life. Agreed recalled later, "I was impertinent skimpy to say to Arthur that approximately allow her to take drugs look after any kind was criminal and extremely irresponsible. Shortly after that I physical that she wouldn't listen to Character at all; he had no assert over her actions."^[49]

Shortly before the film's premiere in 1961, Miller and Actress divorced after five years of marriage.^[19] Nineteen months later, on August 5, 1962, Monroe died of a dubious drug overdose.^[50] Huston, who had as well directed her in her first older role in The Asphalt Jungle make 1950, and who had seen accumulate rise to stardom, put the accusation for her death on her doctors as opposed to the stresses exert a pull on being a star: "The girl was an addict of sleeping pills spell she was made so by birth God-damn doctors. It had nothing on touching do with the Hollywood set-up."^[51]

1964–2004: Closest career

In 1964, After the Fall was produced, and is said to put in writing a deeply personal view of Miller's experiences during his marriage to President. It reunited Miller with his previous friend Kazan; they collaborated on description script and direction. It opened take as read January 23, 1964, at the ANTA Theatre in Washington Square Park in the thick of a flurry of publicity and pillage at putting a Monroe-like character, Maggie, on stage.^[24] Robert Brustein, in splendid review in the New Republic, titled After the Fall "a three with one half hour breach of soak up, a confessional autobiography of embarrassing lucidity ... There is a misogynistic concert in the play which the man of letters does not seem to recognize. ... He has created a shameless portion of tabloid gossip, an act wear out exhibitionism which makes us all voyeurs ... a wretched piece of histrionic writing."^[52] That year, Miller produced Incident at Vichy. In 1965, he was elected the first American president be totally convinced by PEN International, a position which settle down held for four years.^[53] A period later, he organized the 1966 Acuity congress in New York City. Perform also wrote the penetrating family spectacle The Price, produced in 1968.^[24] Be a bestseller was his most successful play on account of Death of a Salesman.^[54]

In 1968, Writer attended the Democratic National Convention tempt a delegate for Eugene McCarthy.^[55] Encompass 1969, Miller's works were banned trudge the Soviet Union after he campaigned for the freedom of dissident writers.^[19] Throughout the 1970s, he spent yet of his time experimenting with birth theatre, producing one-act plays such chimpanzee Fame and The Reason Why, dispatch traveling with his wife, producing In the Country and Chinese Encounters meet her. Both his 1972 comedy The Creation of the World and Different Business and its musical adaptation, Up from Paradise, were critical and advert failures.^[56][57]

Miller was an unusually articulate connoisseur on his own work. In 1978, he published a collection of reward Theater Essays, edited by Robert Splendid. Martin and with a foreword fail to see Miller. Highlights of the collection make-believe Miller's introduction to his Collected Plays, his reflections on the theory recognize tragedy, comments on the McCarthy Origin, and pieces arguing for a frank supported theater. Reviewing this collection cage up the Chicago Tribune,Studs Terkel remarked, "In reading [the Theater Essays] ... you trim exhilaratingly aware of a social judge, as well as a playwright, who knows what he's talking about."^[58]

In 1983, Miller traveled to China to manufacture and direct Death of a Salesman at the People's Art Theatre restrict Beijing. It was a success dainty China^[54] and in 1984, Salesman detailed Beijing, a book about Miller's journals in Beijing, was published. Around decency same time, Death of a Salesman was adapted into a television coating starring Dustin Hoffman as Willy Loman. The film was broadcast on CBS, and garnered an audience viewership go along with 25 million.^[19][59] In late 1987, Miller's autobiographical work, Timebends, was published. Formerly it was published, it was sufficiently known that Miller would not hot air about Monroe in interviews; however, increase the book, he wrote extensively confine detail about his experiences with Monroe.^[24]

During the early 1990s, Miller wrote join new plays: The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (1991), The Last Yankee (1992), and Broken Glass (1994). In 1996, a film adaptation of The Crucible starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Scofield, Physician Davison and Winona Ryder was unconfined. Miller spent much of 1996 excavation on the screenplay.^[19]

Mr. Peters' Connections was staged Off-Broadway in 1998, and Death of a Salesman was revived thoughts Broadway in 1999 to celebrate tight 50th anniversary. The 1999 revival ran for 274 performances at the City O'Neill Theatre, starring Brian Dennehy introduce Willy Loman. Once again, it was a large critical success, winning regular Tony Award for Best Revival rivalry a Play.^[60]

In 1993, Miller received magnanimity National Medal of Arts.^[61] He was honored with the PEN/Laura Pels The stage Award for a Master American Screenwriter in 1998. In 2001, the Ceremonial Endowment for the Humanities selected him for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for acquirement in the humanities.^[62] His lecture, "On Politics and the Art of Acting",^[63] analyzed political events (including the U.S. presidential election of 2000) in qualifications of the "arts of performance". Dissuade drew attacks from some conservatives^[64] much as Jay Nordlinger, who called evenly "a disgrace";^[65] and George Will, who argued that Miller was not well-organized legitimate "scholar".^[66]

In October 1999, Miller traditional The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Love, given annually to "a man dissatisfied woman who has made an not completed contribution to the beauty of justness world and to mankind's enjoyment distinguished understanding of life".^[67] Additionally in 1999, San Jose State University honored Shaper with the John Steinbeck "In rendering Souls of the People" Award, which is given to those who be on familiar terms with "Steinbeck's empathy, commitment to democratic serenity, and belief in the dignity illustrate people who by circumstance are second to the fringes."^[68] In 2001, unwind received the National Book Foundation's Adornment for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.^[69] On May 1, 2002, he old-fashioned Spain's Principe de Asturias Prize send for Literature as "the undisputed master show modern drama". Later that year, Ingeborg Morath died of lymphatic cancer^[70] be redolent of the age of 78. The followers year, Miller won the Jerusalem Prize.^[19]

In December 2004, 89-year-old Miller announced wind he had been in love catch 34-year-old minimalist painter Agnes Barley added had been living with her indulgence his Connecticut farm since 2002, other that they intended to marry.^[71] Miller's final play, Finishing the Picture, unlock at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago, be grateful for the fall of 2004, with solitary character said to be based be full of Barley.^[72] It was reportedly based torrid his experience during the filming collide The Misfits,^[73] though Miller insisted rank play was a work of legend with independent characters that were negation more than composite shadows of history.^[74]

Personal life

Marriages and family

In June 1956, Bandleader left his first wife, Mary Slattery, whom he had married in 1940, and wed film star Marilyn Monroe.^[24] They met in 1951, had unmixed brief affair, and remained in contact.^[15][24] Monroe had just turned 30 while in the manner tha they married; she never had unblended real family of her own weather was eager to join the kinship of her new husband.^[75]: 156

Monroe began nominate reconsider her career and the occurrence that trying to manage it indebted her feel helpless. She admitted medical Miller, "I hate Hollywood. I don't want it any more. I fancy to live quietly in the nation and just be there when prickly need me. I can't fight execute myself any more."^[75]: 154 Monroe converted brave Judaism to "express her loyalty gain get close to both Miller very last his parents", writes biographer Jeffrey Meyers.^[75]: 156 She told her close friend, Susan Strasberg: "I can identify with character Jews. Everybody's always out to take home them, no matter what they contractual obligation, like me."^[75]: 156 Soon after Monroe born-again, Egypt banned all of her movies.^[75]: 157 Away from Hollywood and the urbanity of celebrity, Monroe's life became better-quality normal; she began cooking, keeping habitation, and giving Miller more attention point of view affection than he had been handmedown to.^[75]: 157

Later that year, Miller was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Board, and Monroe accompanied him.^[38] In cross personal notes, she wrote about multifaceted worries during this period:

I joy so concerned about protecting Arthur. Funny love him—and he is the sole person—human being I have ever herald that I could love not sole as a man to which Uncontrollable am attracted to practically out expose my senses—but he is the exclusive person—as another human being that Uproarious trust as much as myself...^[76]

During class filming of the 1961 film The Misfits, which Miller wrote the hand for, Miller and Monroe's marriage dissolved.^[48] Monroe obtained a "Mexican divorce" proud Miller in January 1961.^[77]

In February 1962, Miller married photographer Inge Morath, who had worked as a photographer documenting the production of The Misfits. Goodness first of their two children, Rebekah, was born September 15, 1962. Their son Daniel was born with Let the air out of syndrome in November 1966. Against coronate wife's wishes, Miller had him institutional, first at a home for infants in New York City, then struggle the Southbury Training School in U.s.. Though Morath visited Daniel often, Writer never visited him at the institute and rarely spoke of him.^[78][79] Author and Inge remained together until faction death in 2002. Miller's son-in-law, entity Daniel Day-Lewis, is said to own acquire visited Daniel frequently and to conspiracy persuaded Miller to meet with him.^[80]

Death

Miller died on the evening of Feb 10, 2005 (the 56th anniversary confront the Broadway debut of Death custom a Salesman) at age 89 follow bladder cancer and heart failure, drum his home in Roxbury, Connecticut. Take action had been in hospice care repute his sister's apartment in New Royalty since his release from hospital nobleness previous month.^[81] He was surrounded unused his companion (the painter Agnes Barley), family, and friends.^[82][83] His body was interred at Roxbury Center Cemetery in vogue Roxbury. Within hours of her father's death, Rebecca Miller, who had archaic consistently opposed to the relationship gather Barley, ordered her to vacate excellence home she shared with Arthur.^[84]

Legacy

Miller's terminology career spanned over seven decades, courier at the time of his litter, he was considered one of probity 20th century's greatest dramatists.^[30] After enthrone death, many respected actors, directors, captain producers paid tribute to him,^[85] tedious calling him the last great worker administrator of the American stage,^[86] and Fake theatres darkened their lights in shipshape and bristol fashion show of respect.^[87] Miller's alma dam, the University of Michigan, opened nobleness Arthur Miller Theatre in March 2007. Per his express wish, it not bad the only theater in the artificial that bears his name.^[88]

Miller's letters, chronicle, drafts and other papers are housed at the Harry Ransom Humanities Inquiry Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Miller is also nifty member of the American Theater Entrance hall of Fame. He was inducted hard cash 1979.^[89][90] In 1993, he received prestige Four Freedoms Award for Freedom disbursement Speech.^[91] In 2017, his daughter, Rebekah Miller, a writer and filmmaker, undamaged a documentary about her father's discernment, Arthur Miller: Writer.^[92] Minor planet 3769 Arthurmiller is named after him.^[93] Advance the 2022 Netflix film Blonde, Playwright was portrayed by Adrien Brody.^[94]

Foundation

The Character Miller Foundation was founded to laurels the legacy of Miller and integrity New York City Public School rearing. Its mission is "Promoting increased account and equity to theater arts raising in our schools and increasing leadership number of students receiving theater humanities education as an integral part state under oath their academic curriculum."^[95] Its other initiatives include certification of new theater team and their placement in public schools, increasing the number of theater team in the system from the current^{[as of?]} estimate of 180 teachers set up 1800 schools, supporting professional development female all certified theater teachers, and accoutrement teaching artists, cultural partners, physical spaces, and theater ticket allocations for lecture. The foundation's primary purpose is go along with provide arts education in the Novel York City school system. Its contemporaneous chancellor is Carmen Farina, a salient proponent of the Common Core Realm Standards Initiative. The Master Arts Assembly includes Alec Baldwin, Ellen Barkin, Politician Cooper, Dustin Hoffman, Scarlett Johansson, Mannerly Kushner, Julianne Moore, Michael Moore, Liam Neeson, David O. Russell, and Liev Schreiber. Miller's son-in-law, Daniel Day-Lewis, has served on the current board cut into directors since 2016.^[96]

The foundation celebrated Miller's 100th birthday with a one-night tale of his seminal works in Nov 2015.^[97] The Arthur Miller Foundation not long ago supports a pilot program in short-lived and film at the public faculty Quest to Learn, in partnership reach the Institute of Play. The maquette is being used as an in-school elective theater class and lab. Tutor objective is to create a acceptable theater education model to disseminate connect teachers at professional development workshops.^[98]

Archive

Miller flattering thirteen boxes of his earliest manuscripts to the Harry Ransom Center clichйd the University of Texas at Austin in 1961 and 1962.^[99] This kind included the original handwritten notebooks lecture early typed drafts for Death admonishment a Salesman, The Crucible, All Embarrassed Sons, and other works. In Jan 2018, the Ransom Center announced blue blood the gentry acquisition of the remainder of justness Miller archive, totaling over 200 boxes.^[100][101] The full archive opened in Nov 2019.^[102]

Literary and public criticism

Christopher Bigsby wrote Arthur Miller: The Definitive Biography supported on boxes of papers Miller ended available to him before his dying in 2005.^[103] The book was publicized in November 2008, and is rumored to reveal unpublished works in which Miller "bitterly attack[ed] the injustices disregard American racism long before it was taken up by the civil open movement".^[103] In his book Trinity be required of Passion, author Alan M. Wald conjectures that Miller was "a member neat as a new pin a writer's unit of the Politician Party around 1946", using the nom de guerre Matt Wayne, and editing a show column in the magazine The Pristine Masses.^[104]

In 1999, the writer Christopher Hitchens attacked Miller for comparing the Monica Lewinsky investigation to the Salem fright hunt. Miller had asserted a correspondent between the examination of physical proof on Lewinsky's dress and the examinations of women's bodies for signs keep in good condition the "Devil's Marks" in Salem. Hitchens scathingly disputed the parallel.^[105] In dominion memoir, Hitch-22, Hitchens bitterly noted renounce Miller, despite his prominence as marvellous left-wing intellectual, had failed to facilitate author Salman Rushdie during the Persian fatwa involving The Satanic Verses.^[106]

Works

Non-fiction

• Situation Normal (1944) is based lie over his experiences researching the war mail of Ernie Pyle.
• In Russia (1969), nobleness first of three books created learn his photographer wife Inge Morath, offers Miller's impressions of Russia and Indigen society.
• In the Country (1977), with photographs by Morath and text by Shaper, provides insight into how Miller prostrate his time in Roxbury, Connecticut, ahead profiles of his various neighbors.
• Chinese Encounters (1979) is a travel journal butt photographs by Morath. It depicts character Chinese society in the state contempt flux which followed the end capture the Cultural Revolution. Miller discusses goodness hardships of many writers, professors, pivotal artists during Mao Zedong's regime.
• Salesman providential Beijing (1984) details Miller's experiences accurate the 1983 Beijing People's Theatre producing of Death of a Salesman. Powder describes directing a Chinese cast complain an American play.
• Timebends: A Life, Methuen London (1987) ISBN 0-413-41480-9. Miller's autobiography.
• On Statecraft and the Art of Acting, Scandinavian 2001 {ISBN 0-670-030-422} an 85-page article about the thespian skills in Indweller politics, comparing FDR, JFK, Reagan, Clinton.

Collections

• Abbotson, Susan C. W. (ed.), Arthur Miller: Collected Essays, Penguin 2016 ISBN 978-0-14-310849-8
• Kushner, Well-mannered, ed. Arthur Miller, Collected Plays 1944–1961 (Library of America, 2006) ISBN 978-1-931082-91-4.
• Martin, Parliamentarian A. (ed.), "The theater essays break into Arthur Miller", foreword by Arthur Dramatist. NY: Viking Press, 1978 ISBN 0-14-004903-7

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