Arthur Whitch Biography

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Arthur miller was born on october,17,1915 in harlem new york. His parents isidore and Augusta miller both were polish immigrants. Arthur's dad established a clothing store upon moving to america so the family had some wealth. The clothing store idea didn't last long because of the wall street crash of 1929 witch forced arthur's family to move to brooklyn , new york in 1929. Arthur’s dad isidore wanted nothing more than the american dream for his family but it did happen for him.

In 1932 Arthur miller graduated from Abraham Lincoln high school. After high school arthur got a job working in a auto part warehouse stocking parts. Arthur stocked away the 13 to 15 dollars he was paid for his future college tuition. Arthur also took …show more content…

Arthur spent his freshman year learning about all the different this he could could write about. Over spring break arthur wrote “ no villain”
Whitch was his first play. His play won all kinds of awards including “the university prestigious hopwood award” . Arthus entered for a lot of awards and won most of them.

In 1938 Arthur graduated for ann arbor college. After college Arthur found a job writing radio plays for the Federal theater project. Arthur started his job in great thoughts but one year later the congress cut the program's budget in half because of suspicions of writers “leftist sympathies”. Although miller was unabashedly leftist he never join the communist party. Arthur miller became jobless because of this situation. Which caused him to go on welfare.

The situation in 1939 never stopped arthur from writing. One year later arthur married his college sweetheart Mary slattery. During that time he had written two more plays but couldn’t find a producer interested in the plays. Arthur wanted his daytime free so he could writes so he took a night job in a navy yard. Mary slattery got a job as a

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