Arthur Miller

Miller, known for his play, Death of a Salesman, wrote forcefully about moral issues in such plays as All My Sons, The Crucible, A View From the Bridge, The Price and more over a span of six decades.

A private memorial was planned, but no public service would be held, Miller's assistant Julia Bolus said.

Miller attained a celebrity few American playwrights achieve, in part because of his marriage to film star Marilyn Monroe. He first dealt with their relationship in After the Fall, his most autobiographical play, and later in Finishing the Picture, his final major work, which had its world premiere last October at Chicago's Goodman Theater.

Miller was fascinated by success and failure, two components of the American Dream. And nowhere are success and failure more profound than in Salesman, which won him a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony award. Willy Loman, its protagonist, became synonymous with everything that went wrong with the dream.

The Japan Times Weekly: Feb. 19, 2005
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