Teaching Guide - About the Author

Arthur Miller was one of the leading American playwrights of the twentieth century. He was born in October 1915 in New York City. His father, a manufacturer of women's clothing, lost everything in the economic collapse of the 1930s. Living through young adulthood during the Great Depression, Miller was shaped by the poverty that surrounded him and…

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