米勒简介及其主要作品.ppt

Arthur Miller 阿瑟米勒,Arthur Miller(October 17,1915 February 10,2005）Born:New York City Alma mater:University of MichiganOccupation:Playwright,essayist,Arthur Millers father owned a womens clothing manufacturing business.In the Wall Street Crash of 1929,the family lost almost everything and moved to Gravesend.After graduating in 1932 from Abraham Lincoln High School,he worked at several menial jobs to pay for his college tuition,Life,At the University of Michigan,Miller first majored in journalism and worked as a reporter and night editor for the student paper.In 1938,Miller received a BA in English.After graduation,he joined the Federal Theater Project,In 1940 Miller wrote The Man Who Had All the Luck,which was produced in New Jersey in 1940 and won the Theatre Guilds National Award,In 1946 Millers play All My Sons,the writing of which had commenced in 1941,was a success on Broadway(earning him his first Tony Award,for Best Author)and his reputation as a playwright was established,In 1948 Miller built a small studio in Roxbury,Connecticut.There,in less than a day,he wrote Act I of Death of a Salesman.Within six weeks,he completed the rest of the play,one of the classics of world theater,It was the first play to win all three of these major awards（Tony Award for Best Author，New York Drama Circle Critics Award，Pulitzer Prize for Drama）.The play was performed 742 times,In June 1956,Miller left his first wife Mary Slattery and on June 25 he married Marilyn Monroe（梦露）,In 1961,the pair divorced,In 1964 Millers next play was produced.After the Fall is a deeply personal view of Millers experiences during his marriage to MonroeIn 1969,Millers works were banned in the Soviet Union after he campaigned for the freedom of dissident writersIn 1983,Miller traveled to China to produce and direct Death of a Salesman at the Peoples Art Theatre in Beijing,In 1999 Miller was awarded The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize,Millers career as a writer spanned over seven decades,and at the time of his death,Miller was considered to be one of the greatest dramatists of the twentieth century,Miller died of heart failure after a battle against cancer on the evening of February 10,2005,aged 89,