Arthur Miller Quick Facts

Arthur Miller A leading 20th century American playwright and screenwriter Full Name: Arthur Asher Miller Birth: October 17, 1915 Death: February 10, 2005 Place of Birth: Harlem, New York City, USA Place of Death: Roxbury, Connecticut, USA Cause of death: Heart Failure Buried at: Roxbury Center...

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Seamus Heaney Quick Facts

Seamus Heaney Irish poet, essayist, critic, playwright, editor, translator, lecturer and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Full Name: Seamus Justin Heaney Pseudonym: Incertus    Birth: 13 April 1939 Place of Birth: Northeast of Belfast in Northern Ireland ...

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Quotations by Arthur Miller

ARTHUR MILLER (1915 – 2005), AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHT AND ESSAYIST "I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity." ~ Arthur Miller, Tragedy and the Common Man "A...

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