Biography of Arthur Miller

• Arthur Miller was born to middle-class parents in 1915 in New York City.
• Miller was unintellectual as a boy, but decided to become a writer and attended the University of Michigan to study journalism.
• There, he received awards for his playwriting. His first play, The Man Who Had All the Luck opened in 1944. Miller had his first real success with All My Sons (1947). Death of a Salesman (1949) made Miller a star. 
• The Crucible opened in 1952, and was considered an attack on the anti-Communist McCarthyism then raging in the United States.
• Miller himself was brought before Congress in 1956 and convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate. The conviction was eventually overturned.