Arthur Miller was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1949 and has won the New York Drama Critics' Award twice. His
plays include Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, After the Fall, and The Price.
Bigsby, Christopher : University of East Anglia
Christopher Bigsby is Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, England. The
author of more than twenty books, he is the editor of The Portable Arthur Miller and wrote the introductions to
the Classics editions of The Crucible and Death of a Salesman.
Summary
Joe Keller and Herbert Deever, partners in a machine shop during the war, turned out defective airplane parts,
causing the deaths of many men. Deever was sent to prison while Keller escaped punishment and went on to make a
lot of money. In a work of tremendous power, a love affair between Keller's son, Chris, and Ann Deever, Herbert's
daughter, the bitterness of George Keller, who returns from the war to find his father in prison and his father's
partner free, and the reaction of a son to his father's guilt escalate toward a climax of electrifying intensity.
Winner of the Drama Critics' Award for Best New Play in 1947, All My Sons established Arthur Miller as a leading
voice in the American theater. All My Sons introduced, themes that thread through Miller's work as a whole: the
relationships between fathers and sons and the conflict between business and personal ethics.
