Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915. After graduating from the University of Michigan, he began work with the Federal Theatre Project. His first Broadway hit was All My Sons, closely followed by Death of a Salesman, The Crucible and A View from the Bridge. His other writing includes Focus, a novel; The Misfits, first published as a short story, then as a cinema novel; In Russia, In the Country, Chinese Encounters (all in collaboration with his wife, photographer Inge Morath) and 'Salesman' in Beijing, non-fiction; and his autobiography, Timebends, published in 1987. Among his other plays are: Incident At Vichy, The Creation of the World and Other Business, The American Clock, The Last Yankee, and Resurrection Blues. His novella, Plain Girl, was published in 1995 and his second collection of short stories, Presence, in 2007. He died in February 2005 aged eighty-nine.
Susan Abbotson is Professor of English at Rhode Island College, where she mostly teaches drama. She is the author of Student Companion to Arthur Miller (2000) and A Critical Companion to Arthur Miller (2007) and numerous articles on Arthur Miller and other modern and contemporary playwrights. Past President of the Arthur Miller Society, she now manages their website and FaceBook page, and is the Performance Editor for the Arthur Miller Journal. She also authored Thematic Guide to Modern Drama (2003), Masterpieces of Twentieth Century American Drama (2005), and Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1950s (2019). She has published articles on Sam Shepard, Tom Stoppard, Mae West, Tennessee Williams, Thornton Wilder, August Wilson, Eugene O'Neill, Lillian Hellman, and Paula Vogel in a variety of books and journals.
Dr. Jane K. Dominik was Professor of English at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, California. Her work on Miller includes a commentary on The Price published by Methuen, Empty Chairs, Pools of Light: Absent Characters in Arthur Miller's Drama in Arthur Miller's Century: Essays Celebrating the 100th Birthday of America's Great Playwright edited by Stephen A. Marino, "The Critical Reception of Arthur Miller's Work" in Critical Insights: Arthur Miller edited by Brenda Murphy, A View through Death of a Salesman in The Salesman Has a Birthday edited by Stephen A. Marino, and Music in Miller, Before and After the Fall, Prequels and Sequels: A Creative Assignment That Extends Students' Reading of Arthur Miller's Drama, and Stifled Staid, and Suspect: The Working Women in Arthur Miller's Drama , and A Conversation with Christopher Bigsby in The Arthur Miller Journal, as well as reviews for the Arthur Miller Newsletter and The Arthur Miller Journal. She was interviewed about Miller's female characters for The Arthur Miller Society Podcast, has delivered more than two dozen conference papers on dramatic literature and education, and has performed scenes from Miller's plays and the role of Linda in Death of a Salesman. She was the founding editor of the newsletter, has served as President and Vice President of the Arthur Miller Society, and currently serves on the Board.
