Broken Glass

Arthur Miller

1994

Gellburg:

How can I go back? He made a fool of me. It’s infuriating. I tell you—I never wanted to see it this way but he goes sailing around on the ocean and meanwhile I’m foreclosing Brooklyn for them. That’s what it boils down to. You got some lousy rotten job to do, get Gellburg, send in the Yid. Close down a business, throw somebody out of his…

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Creator Bio

Arthur Miller

1915–2005

Playwright Arthur Miller was born and raised in New York City. His wealthy family’s financial suffering during the Depression had a major impact on him. Miller attended the University of Michigan and then joined the Federal Theatre Project in New York; he was later called to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Miller wrote screenplays, novels, essays, and memoirs, and received the Pulitzer Prize, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal, the John F. Kennedy Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Tony Lifetime Achievement Award, and the 2003 Jerusalem Prize.

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