• Arthur Miller born (17/10/1915)

    From Ross Clark@21:1/5 to All on Thu Oct 17 23:04:49 2024
    American playwright,screenwriter,essayist (died 2005).
    "...received a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, testified before the House
    Un-American Activities Committee, and married Marilyn Monroe." [1949-1956] Death of a Salesman (1949) "considered one of the best American plays of
    the 20th century." Yes, we read it in first-year English.
    The Crucible (1953) used the Salem witch trials (1692-3) as an allegory
    for McCarthyism.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Miller

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