Playwright, Arthur Miller, 89,dead

Arthur Miller, the Pulitzer-winning playwright, is dead. He was 89.

Miller, whose most famous fictional creation, Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman," came to symbolise the American Dream gone awry, died of heart failure at his home in Roxbury on Thursday night.

He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for "Death of a Salesman" in 1949, when he was just 33 years old.

The play, which took Miller just six weeks to write, earned rave reviews when it opened on Broadway in February 1949, directed by Elia Kazan.

Born on October 17, 1915, Miller was one of three children in a middle-class Jewish family.

Miller had two children, Jane Ellen and Robert, from his first wife, Mary Slattery.

He and Morath had one daughter, Rebecca.