death of a playwright (...)

Arthur Miller, the playwright who wrote The Crucible died yesterday at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut of heart failure. He was 89.

Often called America's greatest living playwright, Miller was 33 when he wrote one of the quintessential plays in the 20th century canon, Death of a Salesman, about Willy Loman, a man struggling with his past inequities while facing his own mortality and worth. The original 1949 play was directed by Elia Kazan and Miller won the Pulitzer Prize for his work.