American dramatist Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915. In 1938 Miller won awards for his comedy The Grass Still Grows. His major achievement was Death of a Salesman, which won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for drama and the 1949 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. The Crucible was aimed at the widespread congressional investigation of subversive activities in the US; the drama won the 1953 Tony Award. Miller's autobiography, Timebends- A Life was published in 1987.
"[In Arthur Miller's plays] we find the true compassion and
catharsis that are as essential to our society as water and fire
and babies and air. . . . Miller awakened in me the taste for all
that must be-the empathy and love for the least of us, out of which
bursts a gratitude for the poetry of his characters and the
greatness of their creator."
-Philip Seymour Hoffman, from the Foreword
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