20世纪美国最伟大的剧作家之一—阿瑟·米勒 I ' m Barbara Klein . And I ' m Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English . Today we tell about Arthur Miller . Many theater critics believe he was one of the greatest American playwrights of the twentieth century .
Several plays by Arthur Miller will probably be performed for many years to come . That is because critics say Miller was able to dramatize the emotional pain that average people suffer in their daily lives .
A critic once described Miller as an activist for the common man . He demonstrates this well in one of his most famous plays , Death of a Salesman . The main character is a man whose dreams of success in business have died .
But Miller ' s interest in the average man did not stop him from exploring major problems of society . In The Crucible , for example , he shows what happens when unreasonable dislike and fear cause people to accuse innocent people of horrible crimes .
Some other of his best - known plays include All My Sons , A View from the Bridge and After the Fall . Arthur Miller was born in New York City in nineteen fifteen . He died in two thousand five at his home in Roxbury , Connecticut .
For sixty years , he created one dramatic work after another . Miller won many awards for his plays . Among them were a Pulitzer Prize , New York Drama Critics ' Circle prizes and Tony awards .
In nineteen eighty - four , the John F . Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington , D . C . honored him for his lifetime work in drama . Miller also created stories for movies . For example , he wrote The Misfits for actress Marilyn Monroe .
Miller ' s television drama , Playing for Time , told of an orchestra of prisoners at the Nazi death camp , Auschwitz , during World War Two . Miller was also a political activist for human rights . But it was drama performed in the theater that Miller loved most .
Arthur Miller grew up in New York . His father , Isidore Miller , manufactured clothing and operated a store . But the father lost his money in the great economic Depression in the nineteen thirties .
The family had to move from a costly apartment in Manhattan to a small house in Brooklyn . During the Depression , Arthur worked at many jobs to earn money for college .
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