Born in Harlem in 1915, Arthur Miller came from humble beginnings and grew up during America’s hardest financial time; The Great Depression. Despite his rough childhood, Miller became and still is one of most influential playwrights of all time. He managed to put himself through college at Michigan state where he wrote his first play No Villain which explores theories of marxism. He divorced his first wife in 1956 and married big time movie star Marilyn Monroe a few years later. "...the great American brain and the great American body…" As Norman mailer described the eccentric duo. The Crucible, a dramatization of the 1692 Salem witch trials, became one of his most famous and well-known works. It was loosely based off his struggles with the