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    Arthur Miller was a renowned 20th century American playwright. He was born in New York City in 1915 to a Jewish family and studied journalism at the University of Michigan before starting his writing career in the 1930s. Miller is best known for plays like "All My Sons" and "The Crucible," the latter of which critiqued the anti-communist witch hunts of the 1950s House Un-American Activities Committee. He had a high-profile marriage to actress Marilyn Monroe and continued writing until his death in 2005.

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    Arthur Miller was a renowned 20th century American playwright. He was born in New York City in 1915 to a Jewish family and studied journalism at the University of Michigan before starting his writing career in the 1930s. Miller is best known for plays like "All My Sons" and "The Crucible," the latter of which critiqued the anti-communist witch hunts of the 1950s House Un-American Activities Committee. He had a high-profile marriage to actress Marilyn Monroe and continued writing until his death in 2005.

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    Arthur Miller was a renowned 20th century American playwright. He was born in New York City in 1915 to a Jewish family and studied journalism at the University of Michigan before starting his writing career in the 1930s. Miller is best known for plays like "All My Sons" and "The Crucible," the latter of which critiqued the anti-communist witch hunts of the 1950s House Un-American Activities Committee. He had a high-profile marriage to actress Marilyn Monroe and continued writing until his death in 2005.

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    Arthur Asher Miller was born in october 17th from 1915 in New York.

    He was a
    recognized and controversial playwright from the 20th century. He and his
    family were jewish. He grew up in Manhattan and Brooklyn. He graduate from
    high school in 1932 and in 1936 he started working as a psychiatric aide and a
    copywriter. He graduate of journalist from the University of Michigan before he
    started working. In 1935 he joined the League of American Writers and started
    writing. In 1940 his first play was produced. And in 1947 the play “All my sons”
    had a lot of succeed. He got divorced and in 1956 he married Marilyn Monroe.
    In the 50s decade Miller had some issues with HUAC (House Un-American
    Activities Committee) because of a fight he had with an old friend named
    Kazan. Miller get mad with him because of a testimony Kazan did at the HUAC.
    Because of this, Miller wrote a play called “The Crucible” comparing the HUAC
    situation with the Salem witch trials.
    A few months later the HUAC denied Miller the US passport and after that, he
    was sentenced to jail by the HUAC, but a year later he was realized and told he
    had been misled by the chairman or president of the HUAC.
    He died in Connecticut in 2005.

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