Henry Miller

American author

Henry Miller In Paris, 1969  Photo by Carlo Bavagnoli for Life Magazine © Time Inc.

Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American writer and artist. 

He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new type of semi-autobiographical novel that blended character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, stream of consciousness, explicit language, sex, surrealist free association, and mysticism. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, Tropic of Capricorn, and The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy, which are based on his experiences in New York and Paris (all of which were banned in the United States until 1961). He also wrote travel memoirs and literary criticism and painted watercolors.

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Arrival at Schiphol by the American writer Henry Miller | Photograph by Wim van Rossem/ Anefo (10 MAY 1959). © Nationaal Archief, CC0

Henry Miller Is Not Dead Video courtesy of Joe Kishton

Award-winning unconventional documentary on the writer, Henry Miller. Music by Laurie Anderson. Produced by Joe Kishton.

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H.M.  A Self-Portrait, 1944

Published works

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Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymous Bosch
(1957)

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Smile at the Foot of the Ladder 
(1948)

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The Colossus of Maroussi
(1941)

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The Cosmological Eye
(1939)

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The Wisdom of the Heart
(1941)

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Sextet: Six Essays
(1977)

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The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
(1945)

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Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
(1959)

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The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud
(1956)

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