Arthur Miller was a playwriter, essayisr abd a prominent firgure in the tweinth century American theatre. He was born October 17, 1915 in Harlem. He was married three times to three different women named Inge Morath in 1962-2002, Marylin Monroe in the 1956- 1961, and his last wife was Mary Grace Slattery in 1940-1956. In the Crucible Abigail Williams was a harlot. A harlot is a prostitute (whore) or promiscous woman. Abigail was one because she was sleeping with a married man. ¨Proctor: Aye, sir, she knew she was a harlot (page111). And once her uncle tells her to go work for the Proctors she refuses to go work over there because she knew Elizabeth new what they did. ¨Parris: Abigail is there any other cause than you have told me, for being