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Arthur Miller was born in Manhattan, the son of a middle-class ladies' coat manufacturer and a schoolteacher mother. He has a brother who became a businessman and a sister who was an actress. Although he went to grammar school in then fashionable Harlem, Miller was forced to move to Brooklyn when his father suffered major losses right before the Depression. Today, fifty years after his move to Brooklyn, Miller lives the life of a country squire on 400 acres of Connecticut countryside, where he gardens, mows, plants evergreens, works as a carpenter, and writes four to six hours every morning in an isolated studio. There is both a real and metaphoric sense of planting new roots, but he remains haunted by the old. The Depression still troubles him: "It seems easy to tell how it was to live in those years, but I have made several attempts to tell it and when I do try I know I cannot quite touch that mysterious underwater thing."
In the Depression years, Miller lived on Gravesend Avenue in the Midwood section of Brooklyn and says that his house was constantly visited by salesmen uncles who filled the air with their boastful talk.
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