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Arthur Miller

1915 - 2005

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Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), and A View from the Bridge (1955). He wrote several screenplays, including The Misfits (1961). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Miller has received more than 10,929,958 page views. His biography is available in 86 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 84 in 2019). Arthur Miller is the 268th most popular writer (up from 327th in 2019), the 229th most popular biography from United States (up from 307th in 2019) and the 19th most popular American Writer.

Arthur Miller is most famous for his play "The Crucible."

Memorability Metrics

  • 11M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.88

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 86

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Arthur Miller ranks 268 out of 7,302. Before him are Vladimir Mayakovsky, François de La Rochefoucauld, Jami, Amos Oz, Salman Rushdie, and Primo Levi. After him are Anna Komnene, Walt Whitman, Bartolomé de las Casas, Alcaeus of Mytilene, Jordanes, and Marguerite Duras.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Arthur Miller ranks 11. Before him are Frank Sinatra, Ingrid Bergman, Roland Barthes, Vasily Zaitsev, Yitzhak Shamir, and David Rockefeller. After him are Orson Welles, Eli Wallach, Paul Samuelson, Billie Holiday, Paul Tibbets, and Stanley Matthews. Among people deceased in 2005, Arthur Miller ranks 6. Before him are Pope John Paul II, Edward Heath, Rosa Parks, Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, and George Best. After him are Fahd of Saudi Arabia, Claude Simon, Rinus Michels, Peter Drucker, Hans Bethe, and Paul Ricœur.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Arthur Miller ranks 229 out of 20,380. Before him are Talcott Parsons (1902), David Rockefeller (1915), Josephine Baker (1906), Tim Burton (1958), Gwyneth Paltrow (1972), and Charles Sanders Peirce (1839). After him are Peter Falk (1927), Walt Whitman (1819), Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856), Michael Jordan (1963), Steve Ballmer (1956), and Kevin Costner (1955).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Arthur Miller ranks 19. Before him are J. D. Salinger (1919), John Steinbeck (1902), Dale Carnegie (1888), Ray Bradbury (1920), Herman Melville (1819), and Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803). After him are Walt Whitman (1819), Philip K. Dick (1928), Emily Dickinson (1830), Pearl S. Buck (1892), Gertrude Stein (1874), and Coen brothers (null).

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