Henry Miller

Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 to June 7, 1980) was an American writer, expatriated in Paris at his flourishing. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms, developing a new sort of semi-autobiographical novel that blended character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, explicit language, sex, surrealist free association, and mysticism.

His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Capricorn, The Colossus of Maroussi, The Time of the Assassins, and The Books in My Life, many of which are based on his experiences in New York and Paris (some of which were banned in the United States until 1961), adding Big Sur and the Oranges of Heronymous Bosch while finally residing in Big Sur, California. He also wrote travel memoirs and literary criticism, and painted watercolors.

family

He was the son of Lutheran German parents, Louise Marie (Neiting) and Heinrich Miller, a tailor.

Married from / to

1. Beatrice Sylvas Wickens (1917 to 1924)
2. June Miller (1924 to 1934) (born as Juliet Edith Smerth, stage name June Mansfield)
3. Janina Martha Lepska (1944 to 1952)
4. Eve McClure (1953 to 1960)
5. Hiroko Tokuda (1967 to 1977)

His marriages ended in divorce.

In 1931 Anais Nin became his lover and financed the first printing of Tropic of Cancer in 1934 with money from Otto Rank

His three children were Barbara, born 1919, with his first wife; son Tony and daughter Valentine with his third wife.

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