Arthur Miller is critically considered one of the most brilliant playwrights of our time. The legendary author has penned many of today's greatest plays, including Death of a Salesman for which he won the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards in 1949 and which garnered four Tony Awards during its 50th anniversary revival on Broadway in 1999. Miller himself was the recipient of a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement also last year. In 1947, his breakthrough play, All My Sons, won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. Miller is experiencing a career renaissance on stages throughout the world today. Presently, his recent play, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, is receiving its first Broadway production, while simultaneously in Los Angeles his first Broadway play, The Man Who Had All The Luck, is receiving its first American Revival in 55 years. The 1998 production of A View From The Bridge, which was first produced on Broadway in 1955, won two Tony Awards. In October of 1999, William Bolcom's operatic version of A View From the Bridge received a triumphant World Première at The Lyric Opera of Chicago. His other plays include the Tony Award-winning The Crucible (stage play, teleplay and feature film), Mr. Peter's Connection, After The Fall, Incident At Vichy, The Price (first produced on Broadway in 1949 and revived again in 1999), The Creation of the World and Other Business, The Archbishop's Ceiling, Up From Paradise, The American Clock, Danger: Memory!, The Last Yankee and Broken Glass (Olivier Award for Best Play), among others. Besides The Crucible, the author's screenplays include Everybody Wins, The Misfits and The Story of G.I. Joe. In addition, Miller has written radio scripts for CBS, one-act plays, a novel, short stories, reportage, a novella, a children's book, collections and numerous books, including Situation Normal (1944), Focus (1945) and his autobiography Timebends: A Life (1987). In 1980 Miller won an Emmy Award for Playing For Time, and in 1995 he earned an Academy Award nomination for his adaptation of The Crucible. The son of a well-to-do clothing manufacturer, Isidore, and his wife, Augusta, Arthur Asher Miller was born in New York City on October 17, 1915. The author grew up in New York City. After setting his sights on becoming a playwright, he studied dramatic arts at the University of Michigan (where he won several Avery Hopwood Awards for writing), graduating in 1938. In 1995 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Letters from Oxford University, as well as an Honorary Doctorate Degree from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, which was presented during the opening ceremonies of the Arthur Miller College of American Studies, in honor of his 80th birthday.