Miller, Arthur 
1915 - . 
US dramatist. 

His plays deal with family relationships and contemporary American values, and include Death of a Salesman 1949 and The Crucible 1953, based on the Salem witch trials and reflecting the communist witch-hunts of Senator Joe McCarthy. He was married 1956-61 to the film star Marilyn Monroe, for whom he wrote the film The Misfits 1960. Among other plays are All My Sons 1947, A View from the Bridge 1955, After the Fall 1964, based on his relationship with Monroe. More recent work includes The American Clock 1979 on the 1930s depression, The Ride Down Mount Morgan 1991, and Broken Glass 1994, on anti-semitism in the 1930s.