(Page 6 of 6) "The Creation of the World and Other Business," a serio-comic treatment of the human predicament in the Garden of Eden, closed after 20 performances on Broadway in 1972. Two years later, Mr. Miller turned to Genesis again and reworked "The Creation of the World" for his first musical, "Up From Paradise." It was produced Off Broadway and it, too, flopped. Two later plays, "The Archbishop's Ceiling" (1976) and "The American Clock" (1980), which recalled his family's struggle during the Depression, were more successful in London than in the United States. Mr. Miller made a less-than-triumphal return to Lincoln Center in 1987 with two one-act plays about the danger of remembering and the danger of forgetting, called "Danger: Memory!" Frank Rich, who was then the chief drama critic of The New York Times, wrote in a review, "While Arthur Miller's admirable voice of conscience remains firm as always, 'Danger: Memory!' is an evening in which the pontificator wins out over the playwright." Mr. Miller enjoyed greater critical acclaim in 1980 with his dramatization for television of "Playing for Time," a book by Fania Fenelon, who survived Auschwitz by playing the violin to entertain Nazi officers. Mr. Miller opposed demands to have Vanessa Redgrave removed from the lead because of her support of Palestinian causes. "To fire her now because of her political views would be blacklisting," he said. In his later years, Mr. Miller seemed to get greater satisfaction from writing books, although he continued the difficult work of writing plays. "The story of American playwrights is awfully repetitious, the celebratory embraces soon followed by rejection or contempt," he wrote in "Timebends." "The quickest route to failure is success." He published a short story, "Beavers," in this month's issue of Harper's. After his divorce from Monroe, Mr. Miller married Inge Morath, the Austrian-born photographer, with whom he had a daughter, Rebecca Miller, a filmmaker. With Ms. Morath, Mr. Miller collaborated on a number of books: "In Russia" (1969), "In the Country" (1977), "Chinese Encounters" (1979) and " 'Salesman' in Beijing" (1984). Ms. Morath died in 2002. In addition to Rebecca, who is married to the actor Daniel Day-Lewis, Mr. Miller is survived by the children of his first marriage, Jane Doyle of Roxbury, and Robert, of Laguna Beach, Calif.; a sister, Joan Copeland, an actress, of New York; and four grandchildren. He is also survived by his companion, Agnes Barley, a young painter whom he met shortly after Ms. Morath's death. In the late 1980's, after his autobiography was published, he reflected in an interview on the course he had taken in life. "It has gone through my mind how much time I wasted in the theater, if only because when you write a book you pack it up and send it off," he said. "In the theater, you spend months casting actors who are busy in the movies anyway and then to get struck down in half an hour, as has happened to me more than once." He concluded: "You have to say to yourself: 'Why do it? It's almost insulting.' " But when asked how he wanted to be remembered, he did not hesitate. "I hope as a playwright," he said. "That would be all of it." --- Charles Isherwood and Jesse McKinley contributed reporting for this article. --- [完] --

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