The Making of University of Michigan History
Arthur Miller, wins second Hopwood ...
The reasonable tuition and the lure of a Hopwood Award brought a young, working class Brooklynite to Ann Arbor in 1934. Four years later Arthur Miller had won two Hopwood's for drama and shared the Theater Guild National Award. Considered by many to be the nation's greatest playwright, Miller's breakthrough came in 1947 with "All My Sons," followed by the Pulitzer Prize winning "Death of a Salesman" in 1949. His own experiences with the McCarthy investigations provided the subtext for "The Crucible."
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