Short answers, pulled from the story.
Arthur Miller is best known for All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), and A View from the Bridge (1955). Death of a Salesman is considered one of the best American plays of the 20th century. The Crucible has become his most frequently produced work throughout the world.
Arthur Miller won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Death of a Salesman, which premiered on Broadway on the 10th of February 1949. That play was the first in history to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award for Best Author, and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award simultaneously.
Miller appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1956 and gave a detailed account of his political activities but refused to name colleagues who had participated in similar activities, saying "I could not use the name of another person and bring trouble on him." A judge found him guilty of contempt of Congress in May 1957, though a court of appeals overturned the conviction in August 1958, ruling that Miller had been misled by committee chairman Francis E. Walter.
Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe were married in June 1956 and Monroe obtained a Mexican divorce from Miller in January 1961, making the marriage roughly five years long. Monroe died of a likely drug overdose on the 5th of August 1962, nineteen months after the divorce.
Miller wrote Death of a Salesman in a small studio he built in Roxbury, Connecticut in 1948. He completed the first act in less than a day and finished the full play within six weeks. He died at his home in the same town on the 10th of February 2005.
Miller received the Praemium Imperiale in 2001, the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature in 2002 (accepted as "the undisputed master of modern drama"), and the Jerusalem Prize in 2003. He was also selected by the National Endowment for the Humanities for the 2001 Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities.