The Crucible. A Play In Four Acts

Biographie d'Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller was born in New York in 1915 and studied at the University of Michigan. His plays include All My Sons (1947); Death of a Salesman (1949), which won the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics' Circle Award, The Crucible (1953), which won a Tony Award; A Memory of Two Mondays (l955); A View from the Bridge (1955); After the Fall (1963); Incident at Vichy (1964); The Price (l968); The Archbishop's Ceiling (l977); The American Clock (1980); Playing for Time (1981), which won the Peabody Award; Two-Way Mirror (1985); Danger: Memory! (1986); Ride Down Mount Morgan (l 990); The Last Yankee (1992); and Broken Glass (1994), which won the Olivier Award for Best Play in 1995. His play The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972) was made into a musical, Up From Paradise, in 1974, His screenplays for film include The Misfits, starring Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe; and The Crucible, starring Daniel Day Lewis, Winona Ryder and Paul Scofield, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay in 1996. Arthur Miller bas been awarded Honorary Doctorates from Harvard and Oxford Universities. In addition to his works for stage and screen he is also the author of Focus, a novel; I Don't Need You Anymore, a collection of short stories; and Plain Girl, a short work of prose fiction. In collaboration with his wife, the photographer Inge Morath, he has published In Russia (1969); In the Country (l 977); Chinese Encounters (1979); and Salesman in Beijing (1984), based on his experience directing a production of Death of a Salesman in China. His autobiography, Time Bends, was published in 1987.