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Arthur Miller, 1915-2005
Born New York City
Arthur Miller was one of the most influential playwrights of the twentieth century, celebrated for his dramas of social conscience. He is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning Death of a Salesman (1949) and The Crucible (1953), a play about the Salem witch trials inspired by Miller's hatred of McCarthyism. He continued to write dramatic works, short stories, and essays for the rest of life, and his masterpieces are still staged frequently. Miller and sculptor Philip Grausman were friends and neighbors in rural Connecticut. Critic Hilton Kramer found Grausman's refined portraits fascinating, noting that "their surfaces have an astonishing clarity and finish, and they have a haunting physical presence."
Philip Grausman, 1972 |