He attended James Madison and Abraham Lincoln high schools in Brooklyn where he was an average student. Of his reading, Miller says that "until the age of seventeen I can safely say that I never read a book weightier than Tom Swift and the Rover Boys, and only verged on literature with some Dickens." When he graduated from Abraham Lincoln in 1932 in the depth of the Depression, his parents could not afford to send him to college, nor were his grades good enough to get him in. The University of Michigan turned him down because of his academic record, and years later, none of his high school teachers could remember having taught the Pulitzer Prize-winner.
During those days Miller was much more of an athlete like Biff Loman in Death of a Salesman (1949) than the man who would become America's "intellectual" playwright. He would, in fact, never become quite comfortable with that mantle.
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