Arthur Miller

American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)

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Lived 1915–2005, aged 90United States

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#234
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1915–2005
Aged 90

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Updated 2026-05-29

Playwright who dominated mid-century American theater with Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, and All My Sons. Also wrote The Misfits for screen. His work on ordinary people wrestling with impossible choices defined postwar drama.

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Arthur Asher Miller was an American actor and writer of plays in the 20th-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), and A View from the Bridge (1955). He wrote several screenplays, including The Misfits (1961). The drama Death of a Salesman is considered one of the best American plays of the 20th century.

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