Who was Arthur Miller?
Arthur Miller was born on October 17, 1915, and was raised in a prosperous Jewish family in a neighbourhood of New-York City. His father was the owner of a textile factory but was financially struck by the Depression after 1929. His mother, who loved reading, was the only cultured person of the family, and was very close to Arthur. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1938 where he learned how to write plays and won the University Theatre’s Hopwood Award, a prestigious distinction. Due to an old football injury, Miller was ineligible for military service during World War II but wrote patriotic plays for the radio. He even did volunteer labour in New York’s harbour to repair military boats. He wrote and produced The Man Who Had All the Luck in 1944 which was not successful, but a drama critic encouraged him to continue. He finally wrote All My Sons in 1947. With the help of the producer Elia Kazan, a man who was a major force in the American theatre, he was successful again a
