The Economist (US), February 19th, 2005
Arthur Miller, playwright, died on February 10th, aged 89 FOR most of his life, Arthur Miller was a carpenter. At 14, with the money made from delivering bagels on his bike round Harlem, he bought enough wood to build a back porch on the family house. In his old age, living on 360 acres in Connecticut, he made tables, chairs, a bed, a cabinet. To make extra-sure the angles were right, he once consulted a mathematician. He loved making plays--which he did better than any other American of the 20th century, with the possible exception only of Tennessee Williams--for much the same reason. They ...
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