Born in New York City in 1916 ,Arthur Miller graduation from Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, young Miller worked as a stock clerk in an automobile parts warehouse for two and a half years until he had enough money to pay for his first year at the University of Michigan. He finished college with the financial aid of the National Youth Administration supplemented by his salary as night editor on the Michigan Daily newspaper. Before his graduation with a B.A. degree in 1938, he had written a number of plays, winning a $500 Avery Hopwood Award in 1936 and a $1,200 Theater Guild National Award in 1938 for an effort entitled The Grass Still Grows. .( Huftel, Sheila. Arthur Miller: the burning glass.[1st ed.]New York, Citadel Press ) Arthur Miller works are concerned with the responsibility of each individual to other members of society. Simply and colloquially written, Miller's plays spring from his social conscience and from his compassion for those who are vulnerable to the false values imposed on them by society. Born in New York City, Miller was the son of a coat manufacturer who suffered financial ruin in the Great Depression of the 1930s. In 1938, while a student at the University of Michigan, Miller won awards for his comedy The Grass Still Grows. The Man Who Had All the Luck, although not a commercial success, won him the Theater Guild Award that same year. Miller's novel(Hogan, Robert Goode, Arthur Miller, . Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press 1964.) Focus (1945), an attack on anti-Semitism, was well received, and the New York Drama Critics' Circle chose his play All My Sons as the best play of 1947. This study of the effect of opportunism on family relationships shadowed most of Miller's later work. With the Death of a Salesman during the winter of 1949 on Broadway, Arthur Miller began to live as a playwright who has since been called one of this century's three great American dramat...
