The Misfits

About Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915. After graduating from the University of Michigan he began work with the Federal Theatre Project. His first Broadway hit was All My Sons closely followed by Death of a Salesman The Crucible and A View from the Bridge. His other writing includes Focus a novel; The Misfits first published as a short story then as a cinema novel; In Russia In the Country Chinese Encounters (all in collaboration with his wife photographer Inge Morath) and Salesman in Beijing non-fiction; and his autobiography Timebends published in 1987. Among his other plays are: Incident At Vichy The Creation of the World and Other Business The American Clock The Last Yankee and Resurrection Blues. His novella Plain Girl was published in 1995 and his second collection of short stories Presence in 2007. He died in February 2005 aged eighty-nine.