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Playwright Arthur Miller, the creator of The Crucible and Death of a Salesman, has died at the age of 89.
Miller died on Thursday evening, having battled with cancer, pneumonia and a heart condition.

He was one of the most significant American writers of the 20th Century, whose fame was further magnified by his short-lived marriage to Marilyn Monroe.


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I can hear Biff weeping now.

I just read the news and this is sad.

When I was in high school I read Death of a Salesman with some schoolmates and we loved it. I love the play is quite sad to lose Miller, but his works will last for ages.

R.I.P. Arthur Miller.

I agree I studied both the Crucilbe and Death of a Salesman and I thought they we're both equally great.

Living to 89 and celebrating a prominent writing career while you're doing it is quite a life.

I got to be john proctor when we did the Crucible at school, its ****ing brilliant----great allegory to Mcarthyism


Shame he died weep

that's sad





though i thought he is already dead bag

I live 10,000 miles away from you and that's the same thing my classmates and I experienced in school. His work should be compulsory reading to all schoolkids.

Absolutely! I think the crucible and death of salesman are required in all english high school classes. For me it was optional to pick his book to read.

I will never understand how this guy got Marilyn Monroe to marry him...... but a great playwright nonetheless......

I read Death of a Salesman and the Crucible...brilliant.

This is really sad...

I think Willy may top himself at the news

Monroe wanted a father figure in life and, for a not very intelligent woman, was fascinated by intellectual minds.

he wrote view from the bridge - now that's a play.