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Arthur Asher Miller is born in Manhattan. Isidore's business—S. Isidore rides a chauffeured car to work every morning.

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The stock market crashes. Isidore Miller, who has invested extensively in stocks, takes a hard hit in the subsequent Depression. Within two years, Miller is forced to give up his business and the family moves from Manhattan to Brooklyn. Arthur Miller graduates from Brooklyn's Abraham Lincoln High School and begins work in an auto-parts warehouse in order to save money for college.

He also attends New York City College night classes for a few weeks, but drops out when he is unable to keep up with both school and work. Miller enrolls in the University of Michigan after having been denied admission twice before due to his poor grades in high school.

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Miller works as a reporter and night editor for the university newspaper, the Michigan Daily. Miller receives the Hopwood Award for his first play, No Villain , and uses the prize money to help pay tuition. Miller wins a second Hopwood Award for his play Honors at Dawn. Miller's third entry to the Hopwood Committee, a dramatic critique of prison conditions called The Great Disobedience , receives second place recognition.

Two years later, the U. An unemployed Miller accepts federal assistance. Miller marries his college sweetheart, a Catholic woman named Mary Grace Slattery. Slattery supports them both through her work as a waitress and an editor.