The American writer Arthur Miller was born in 1915 in New York, where he grew up and had a happy childhood. In 1938 he graduated from the University of Michigan and began to write his first plays: "Honours at Dawn" (1936) and "No Villain "(1937) which won the University of Michigan Hopwood Awards. Later on he wrote "the Death of a Salesman" which won the Pulitzer prize. Miller wrote The Crucible in 1953 during the McCarthy period when a kind of mass-hysteria broke out and Americans were accusing each other of being a communist. In 1956 Miller was brought before the House of Un-American Activities Committee(HUAC) where he was found guilty of beliefs in communism. But the verdict was reversed in 1957 in an appeals court. In 1956 Miller married the famous actress Marilyn Monroe but they divorced five years later. His latest books were "The last Yankee" and "The broken Glass" which were published...