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
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Award-winning unconventional documentary on the writer, Henry Miller. Music by Laurie Anderson. Produced by Joe Kishton.
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Published works
Tropic of Cancer (1934) · Black Spring (1936) · Tropic of Capricorn (1939) · The Cosmological Eye (1939) · The Colossus of Maroussi (1941) · The Wisdom of the Heart (1941) · Sunday After the War (1944) · The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (1945) · The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud (1946) · Remember to Remember (1947) · The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder (1948) · Sexus (1949) · The Books in My Life (1952) · Plexus (1953) · Quiet Days in Clichy (1956) · A Devil in Paradise (1956) · Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (1957) · Nexus (1960) · Stand Still Like the Hummingbird (1962) · Henry Miller on Writing (1964) · Insomnia or the Devil at Large (1970) · My Life and Times (1971) · The Nightmare Notebook (1975) · Henry Miller’s Book of Friends: A Tribute to Friends of Long Ago (1976) · The World of Lawrence: A Passionate Appreciation (1980) · Sextet (1977) · My Bike and Other Friends, Volume II, Book of Friends (1978) · Joey: A Loving Portrait of Alfred Perlès Together With Some Bizarre Episodes Relating to the Opposite Sex, Volume III, Book of Friends (1979)
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymous Bosch
(1957)
Smile at the Foot of the Ladder
(1948)
The Colossus of Maroussi
(1941)
The Cosmological Eye
(1939)
The Wisdom of the Heart
(1941)
Sextet: Six Essays
(1977)
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
(1945)
Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
(1959)
The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud
(1956)
Tropic of Cancer (1934) · Black Spring (1936) · Tropic of Capricorn (1939) · The Cosmological Eye (1939) · The Colossus of Maroussi (1941) · The Wisdom of the Heart (1941) · Sunday After the War (1944) · The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (1945) · The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud (1946) · Remember to Remember (1947) · The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder (1948) · Sexus (1949) · The Books in My Life (1952) · Plexus (1953) · Quiet Days in Clichy (1956) · A Devil in Paradise (1956) · Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (1957) · Nexus (1960) · Stand Still Like the Hummingbird (1962) · Henry Miller on Writing (1964) · Insomnia or the Devil at Large (1970) · My Life and Times (1971) · The Nightmare Notebook (1975) · Henry Miller’s Book of Friends: A Tribute to Friends of Long Ago (1976) · The World of Lawrence: A Passionate Appreciation (1980) · Sextet (1977) · My Bike and Other Friends, Volume II, Book of Friends (1978) · Joey: A Loving Portrait of Alfred Perlès Together With Some Bizarre Episodes Relating to the Opposite Sex, Volume III, Book of Friends (1979)
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