Timeline of Arthur Miller’s life

  • Arthur Miller was born in in Brooklyn, New York City.

  • Miller Graduates from High School

  • He enrolls at the University of Michigan

  • Miller receives the Hopwood Award for his first play, No Villain, and uses the prize money to help pay tuition.

  • He got married with Mary Grace Slatterly

  • Miller finds work as a screenwriter for a war film, The Story of G.I. Joe, and quits his job in the Navy Yard.

  • Miller's play The Man Who Had All the Luck receives the Theater Guild National Award and opens on Broadway.

  • The Crucible opens on Broadway.

  • Marries actress Marilyn Monroe and receives an honorary Doctor of Human Letters from the University

  • He divorcce with Marilyn Monroe and maaries Inge Morath

  • Elected president of International P.E.N., the renowned international literary organization.

  • Miller's works are banned in the Soviet Union as a result of his efforts to free dissident writers.

  • Awarded National Medal of the Arts by President Bill Clinton

  • Awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and the John H. Finley Award for Exemplary Service to New York City.

  • Arthur Miller dies at the age of 89 at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut.