was born in New York City in 1915 and studied at the University of Michigan. His plays include All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), A View from the Bridge and A Memory of Two Mondays (1955), After the Fall (1964), Incident at Vichy (1965), The Price (1968), The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972) and The American Clock (1980). He has also written two novels, Focus (1945), and The Misfits, which was filmed in 1960, as well as the text for In Russia (1969), In the Country (1977) and Chinese Encounters (1979), three books of photographs by Inge Morath. His more recent works include a memoir, Timebends (1987); the plays The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (1991), The Last Yankee (1993), Broken Glass (1994) and Mr. Peter’s Connections (1999); Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays, 1994-2000; and On Politics and the Art of Acting (2001). Mr. Miller was granted with the 2001 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He twice won the New York Drama Critics Award, and in 1949 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. He died in February 2005.