The sad death of legendary playwright Arthur Miller has been marked with many articles in the press, a few of which are detailed below.
Reviews of his life and career come from the Scotsman, the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, Toronto Star, and a special section of the New York Times, including articles written by the great man himself, and their original reviews of his plays. Playwright Harold Pinter pays tribute here.
The Arthur Miller Society is a good starting point to learn more about his life and work, and also has a collection of relevant links.
The Crucible: Fact and Fiction is an interesting look at the accuracy of Miller's depiction of historical events in this play based on the Salem witch trials.
The Inge Morath Foundation features the photography of Miller's wife, who died in 2002.
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In my early twenties I had begun to feel the overcoming of my working class origins. This progress I owe to Miller and other writers (Dostoyevsky is a good example) who examined states of psychological desperation. How could such a wonderful thing as liberal education happen to ME! Imposed competition is a dark cloud that hangs over the middle and working classes everywhere. But where I come from there is little direct access to the humanities, so this cloud becomes all the more sinister. No one can possibly trust another person or another person's insight unless that person is a contemporary, a shill, a "regular guy", a "team player". Books changed all of that for me. Miller contributed to a good part of my understanding these things. Yes, he was a great man.
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