September 29, 2004
Period 2
Arthur Miller was born in New York. His father was a shoe keeper, who got ruined because of
depression. Because of this it gave Miller a strong influence "This desire to move on, to metamorphose or perhaps it is a talent for being contemporary - was given me as life's inevitable and rightful condition," He played most of his boy hood playing football and baseball.
When he graduated in 1938, he returned to New York. There he joined Federal Theatre Project, in which he wrote many scripts for radio programs, such as Columbia Workshop (CBS) and Cavalcade of America (NBC). In 1944, he wrote his first play, THE MAN WHO HAD ALL THE LUCK, it was closed after only four performances. It wasn't until 1991 where his productions "The Ride Down Mount Morgan" and "The Last Yankee" that his career really began to see a renaissance. His first success ALL MY SONS (1947) which he won the Drama Critics Circle Award, and DEATH OF A SALES, winner of the Drama Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Millers last dramatic works include THE CREATION OF THE WORLD AND OTHER BUISNESS, which seemed too openly didactic for the critics and the audience.
