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Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)
Robert Penn Warren, one of the southern Fugitives, enjoyed a fruitful career running through 

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most of the 20th century. He showed a lifelong concern with democratic values as they appeared 
within historical context. The most enduring of his novels is 
All the King's Men
(1946), focusing 
on the darker implications of the American dream -- as revealed in this thinly veiled account of 
the career of a flamboyant and sinister southern senator, Huey Long.
Arthur Miller (1915- )
New York-born dramatist-novelist-essayist-biographer Arthur Miller reached his personal 
pinnacle in 1949 with 
Death of a Salesman
, a study of man's search for merit and worth in his 
life and the realization that failure invariably looms. Set within the Loman family, it hinges on 
the uneven relationships of father and sons, husband and wife. It is a mirror of the literary 
attitudes of the 1940s -- with its rich combination of realism tinged with naturalism; carefully 
drawn, rounded characters; and insistence on the value of the individual, despite failure and 
error.
Death of a Salesman
is a moving paean to the common man -- to whom, as Willy Loman's 
widow eulogizes, "attention must be paid." Poignant and somber, it is also a story of dreams. As 
one character notes ironically, "a salesman has got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory."
Death of a Salesman
, a landmark work, still is only one of a number of dramas Miller wrote 
over several decades, including All My Sons (1947) and 
The Crucible
(1953). Both are political -
- one contemporary, and the other set in colonial times. The first deals with a manufacturer who 
knowingly allows defective parts to be shipped to airplane firms during World War II, resulting 
in the death of his son and others. 
The Crucible
depicts the Salem (Massachusetts) witchcraft 
trials of the 17th century in which Puritan settlers were wrongfully executed as supposed 
witches. Its message, though -- that "witch hunts" directed at innocent people are anathema in a 
democracy -- was relevant to the era in which the play was staged, the early 1950s, when an anti- 
Communist crusade led by U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy and others ruined innocent people s 
lives.