Playwright Arthur Miller Dies At Age 89

Playwright Arthur Miller dies at 89
ROXBURY, Conn. (AP) — Arthur Miller, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose most famous fictional creation, Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, came to symbolize the American Dream gone awry, has died. He was 89.

Miller died Thursday night at his home in Roxbury of heart failure, his assistant, Julia Bolus, said Friday. His family was at his bedside, she said.

His plays, with their strong emphasis on family, morality and personal responsibility, spoke to the growing fragmentation of American society.

"A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong — if there is any root to life — because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long," Miller said in a 1988 interview.

"Dislocation, maybe, is part of our uneasiness. It implants the feeling that nothing is really permanent."

Miller's career was marked by early success. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Death of a Salesman in 1949, when he was just 33 years old.

His marriage to screen star Marilyn Monroe in 1956 further catapulted the playwright to fame, though that was publicity he said he never pursued.More>>>


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posted by ADMIN @ Friday, February 11, 2005