Arthur Miller Arthur Miller Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist, and a major figure in the twentieth-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are "All My Sons" (1947), "Death of a Salesman" (1949), "The Crucible" (1953) and "A View from the Bridge" (1955, revised 1956). He wrote several screenplays and was most noted for his work on "The Misfits" (1961). The drama "Death of a Salesman" has been numbered on the short list of finest American plays in the 20th century alongside Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey into Night" and Tennessee Williams's
Frieda S. Miller retired and returned to New York. Miller had a stroke in 1969 and though they placed her in the Mary Manning Walsh Home at that time, Newman and Miller's daughter Elisabeth shared the care for Miller for the last four years of her life. Miller died from pneumonia on July 21, 1973 in Manhattan, New York. Her papers were donated to the Schlesinger Library at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Frieda S. Miller Frieda S. Miller (April 16, 1890 – July 21, 1973) was an American labor activist, government administator and women's rights activist. She served as the Industrial