Arthur Miller was considered as a pre-eminent American play writer of the 2nd half of the 20th century. He was born in New York City at year 1915. He died in the year of 2005 from old age. His father manufactured women's coats and his mother was a school teacher. In high school he was more of a sports fanatic, not involved with literature. He applied for the University of Michigan but his grades weren't good enough. To make college money he worked at a automobile parts plant for two years. That gave him enough money to write A Memory of Two Mondays. He later went to University of Michigan and worked few jobs to keep up with his tuition. He eventually returned to New York and wrote radio scripts. His first Broadway success was All My Sons. He then wrote The Crucible.
Arthur Miller had few reasons why he wrote the most produced play, The Crucible. He watched the movie and questioned it. Knowing China was lost and Europe and would soon be lost, because of the State Department was full of treasonous pro-Soviet intellectuals. The Crucible was basically written from an act of desperation. Miller visited Salem and read the transcripts of witch craft trials. Abigail was Parris's niece. Proctor cast a spell on Abigail and her fingers began to burn. He saw the opportunity to write the play from this story.
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