Incident at Vichy: A Play
Arthur Millerwas born in New York City in 1915 and studied at the University of Michigan. His plays includeAll My Sons(1947),Death of a Salesman(1949),The Crucible(1953),A View from the BridgeandA Memory of Two Mondays(1955),After the Fall(1963),Incident at Vichy(1964),The Price(1968),The Creation of the World and Other Business(1972) andThe American Clock. He has also written two novels,Focus(1945), andThe Misfits, which was filmed in 1960, and the text forIn Russia(1969),Chinese Encounters(1979), andIn the Country(1977), three books of photographs by his wife, Inge Morath. More recent works include a memoir,Timebends(1987), and the playsThe Ride Down Mt. Morgan(1991),The Last Yankee(1993),Broken Glass(1993), which won the Olivier Award for Best Play of the London Season, andMr. Peter's Connections(1998). His latest book isOn Politics and the Art of Acting. Miller was granted with the 2001 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He has twice won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and in 1949 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.