On this day in literature
October 17
In literary history
- 1915Arthur Miller was born in Harlem. In 1948 he built himself a small studio at Roxbury in Connecticut, sat down in it and wrote the first act of Death of a Salesman in less than a day. The rest of the play took him six weeks.
Writers born on October 17
- Nathanael West (1903),
- Arthur Miller (1915)