The Millers left Harlem for Brooklyn in the early 1920s. He once said that everything he had written was based on somebody he had seen or known, and although Death Of A Salesman is not strictly autobiographical, it is hard to imagine without the lives of Izzie and Gussie Miller. Arthur was closer to his mother, but tender to the memory of both parents, and their spirit, ambition and disappointments are present in most of the plays.
