阿瑟米勒介绍.ppt

ARTHUR MILLER
Source:
Weales, Gerald. Death of a Salesman
Text and Criticism. New York: The
Viking Press, 1967.
October 17, 1915 Arthur Aster Miller was born
in New York City.
1920-28: Attends Public School #24 in Harlem.
1923: Sees first play--a melodrama at the
Schubert Theater.

1928: Bar-mitzvah at the Avenue M temple.
1929: Father's business fails and family move
to Brooklyn.
1932: Graduates from
Abraham Lincoln High School. Registers
for night school at City College, but quits
after two weeks.
1932: Various jobs, including singing on a
local radio station and truck driving.
1932-34: Clerked in an auto-parts warehouse,
where he was the only Jew employed and had
his first real, personal experiences of American
Anti-Semitism.
1934-35: University of Michigan, studying
journalism. Reporter and night editor on
student paper, The Michigan Daily.
1936: Writes No Villain in six days and receives
Hopwood Award in Drama. Transfers to
an English major.
1937: Rewrite of No Villain, titled, They Too
Arise, receives a major award.
Heads east to join the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
in Spain during their Civil War, and decides
not to go.
1938: Graduates with a . in English. 
Joins the Federal Theater Project in New York City
to write radio plays and scripts.
Turns down a much better paying offer to work as
a scriptwriter for Twentieth Century Fox, in
Hollywood.
1940: Marries Mary Grace Slattery.
Writes The Golden Years.
Travels to North Carolina to collect dialect speech
for the folk division of the Library of Congress.