Henry Miller

Henry Miller (1891–1980) was an American writer and watercolors painter. His parents were from Germany. The Colossus of Maroussi (1941), a travel book of Greece, is considered his best work. Other writings include: Tropic of Cancer (1934) (adventures in Paris), Black Spring (1936) (his early Brooklyn years), Tropic of Capricorn (1939), and the Rosy Crucifixion Trilogy: Sexus (1949), Plexus (1953), and Nexus (1960).

Henry Miller sought to reestablish the freedom to live without the conventional restraints of civilization. His books are potpourris of sexual description, quasi-philosophical speculation, reflection on literature and society, surrealistic imaginings, and autobiographical incident. [1]

Life and Works

Miller was born December 26, 1891, to working-class Bavarian-American parents, and was a bright child who enjoyed adventure stories and literary classics. He wrote Black Spring about his Brooklyn years, Tropic of Capricorn and Tropic of Cancer, published in France because their sexual descriptions forced the U.S. and Britain to ban them, and The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (1945), a complaint about commercialization and capitalism.

See Also

• Jack Kerouac

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