Arthur Miller

Miller, Arthur (1915– ), U.S. playwright. He has explored individual and social morality in plays like Death of a Salesman (1949; Pulitzer Prize); The Crucible (1953), about the witch trials in Salem, Mass.; A View from the Bridge (1955; Pulitzer Prize); the partly autobiographical After the Fall (1964); and the screenplay The Misfits (1961), written for his second wife, Marilyn Monroe. His autobiography, Time Bends, was published in 1987.