The Pulitzer Prize-winning author and playwright Arthur Miller has died. He was 89.
His assistant, Julia Bolus, said: "Mr Miller passed away at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, last night at 9:17 pm of congenital heart failure."
Miller had been battling cancer and pneumonia.
The New York Post reported that Miller had been receiving hospice care in an apartment in the city and at his request was brought this week to the 18th Century Connecticut farmhouse which he bought with his wife Marilyn Monroe in 1958.
Miller married Monroe in 1956 but the marriage only lasted a couple of years. In 1962 he married photographer Inge Morath, whom he was with until her death in 2002.
Amongst his acclaimed plays were 'Death of a Salesman', 'The Crucible' and 'A View from the Bridge'. 'Death of a Salesman', a critique of the American dream, earned him a Pulitzer Prize, a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award and a Tony Award.
Miller's latest play, 'Finishing the Picture', about his time filming 'The Misfits' with Monroe, premiered in Chicago last year.
