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Nor did his film script, The Misfits (1961). Only after graduating from high school in 1932 did Miller think about becoming a writer, when he read Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky's (1821–1881) The Brothers Karamazov. Despite his limited exposure to the theater, he began writing plays and won the prestigious Avery Hopwood Award for two consecutive years.
All of Miller's works after that premiered outside of New York. That same year the Broadway production of his play The Man Who Had All the Luck opened, closing after four performances. This success was quickly followed by the Broadway premiere of Death of a Salesman in 1949, again under the direction of Kazan.
Although The Crucible initially received mixed reviews from critics and audiences, it won the Tony Award for Best Play.
Following a divorce from his first wife and remarriage to actress Marilyn Monroe in 1956, Miller would not write another play for nearly a decade. (The work, in fact, swept all of the six Tony categories in which it was nominated, including for Best Direction and Best Author.)
Marriage to Marilyn Monroe
In 1956, Miller divorced his first wife, Mary Slattery, his former college sweetheart with whom he had two children, Jane Ellen and Robert.
In addition to his Pulitzer Prize in 1949, his awards include the Theatre Guild National Prize, 1944; Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award (given for achievement in the theater), 1947 and 1953; Emmy Award (given for achievement in television broadcasting), 1967; George Foster Peabody Award, 1981; John F. Kennedy Award for Lifetime Achievement, 1984; Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, 1999; National Book Foundation lifetime achievement award, 2001; New York City College Alumni Association medal for artistic devotion to New York, 2001; and the Japan Art Association lifetime achievement award, 2001.
His next play, All My Sons, was a hit in 1947, running for almost a full year on Broadway and earning Miller his first Tony Award for Best Author.
He enrolled there two years later, continuing to work as a dishwasher and as a night editor at a newspaper to help pay his expenses while he studied drama. Less than a month later, Miller married actress and Hollywood sex symbol Marilyn Monroe, whom he'd first met in 1951 at a Hollywood party. In The Price (1968) Miller returned to domestic drama in his portrayal of a tight, intense struggle between two brothers, almost strangers to each other, brought together by their father's death.
During this time, Miller wrote a screenplay adaption of his short story “The Misfits” to give Monroe the opportunity to play a serious role, but the film was largely unsuccessful. He received more acclaim for his award-winning follow-up, The Crucible, which reflected his unwavering refusal to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Arthur Miller. He's the enemy. He's got to be able to take a whack, and he's got to swallow bicycles and digest them.