Arthur Miller
/ˌɑːθə ˈmɪlə(r)/
/ˌɑːrθər ˈmɪlər/
- (1915-2005) a US writer of plays. They include Death of a Salesman, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and A View from the Bridge (1955). In The Crucible (1953) he used the story of the Salem witch trials as a symbol of McCarthyism, which he strongly opposed. Miller was married to Marilyn Monroe from 1955 to 1961 and wrote her last film, The Misfits (1961), which is the subject of Miller's later play Finishing the Picture (2004).“A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.”
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