Arthur Miller Dies

AP - Playwright Arthur Miller Dies at 89: "ROXBURY, Conn. - Arthur Miller, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose most famous fictional creation, Willy Loman in 'Death of a Salesman,' came to symbolize the American Dream gone awry, has died. He was 89."

Death of a Salesman was one of the first plays I read that didn't sound like a play. I saw the characters as people in their own world, not as actors onstage. Their dialogue was not dated at all—part of the reason the play speaks to so many audiences year after year.