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Article: A toast to Arthur Miller.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- October 23, 2000
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. _ In the middle of the night you leave your room in the house at 411 N. State St. in Ann Arbor and step outside. You break into a trot, then a run. The road to downtown is all uphill, but you barely notice. The way you feel at this moment, walking would never do.
You gallop onto the University of Michigan campus and head down North University. Eventually you stop to take it all in: You just spent spring break at the typewriter; you wrote your first play; you found your destiny.
Such was the birth of a playwright, the man who would go on to write "Death of a Salesman." At age 20, freshman Arthur Miller may have had some inkling about his ...