The playwright-to-be was a high school football hero in Brooklyn (an experience he later incorporated into Death of a Salesman). Miller was born in New York City in 1915. The promise he showed then was more than fulfilled two years later with his overwhelming American tragedy, Death of a Salesman-which made a clean sweep in 1949 by winning both another New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
Ever since he won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award in 1947 for his second-produced play, All My Sons, Arthur Miller has been counted one of the most gifted playwrights on the American scene.
