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He was the subject of four documentary films by Robert Snyder; The Henry Miller Odyssey (1969; 90 minutes), Henry Miller: Reflections On Writing (47 minutes), and Henry Miller Reads and Muses (60 minutes).
Henry Miller (born Dec. 26, 1891, New York City—died June 7, 1980, Pacific Palisades, Calif., U.S.) was a U.S. writer and perennial Bohemian whose autobiographical novels achieve a candour—particularly about sex—that made them a liberating influence in mid-20th-century literature.
Henry Valentine Miller was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. He broke with existing literary forms and developed 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.
Followed by. Black Spring. Tropic of Cancer is an autobiographical novel by Henry Miller that is best known as "notorious for its candid sexuality", with the resulting social controversy considered responsible for the "free speech that we now take for granted in literature."
Mar 25, 2020 · Henry Miller (December 26, 1891—June 7, 1980) was an American writer who published several semi-autobiographical novels that broke from conventional form in both style and subject matter. His stream-of-consciousness blend of personal philosophy, social critique, and candid depictions of sex cemented him as a rebel in both life and art.
Opus Pistorum, (from the Latin, Work of the Miller), written as pornography-for-hire in 1941 (see Anaïs Nin), was retitled in its second edition Under the Roofs of Paris, published by the Estate of Henry Miller.
Henry Miller has 750 books on Goodreads with 461334 ratings. Henry Miller’s most popular book is Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1).
Henry Valentine Miller was a man who liked to break things. Specifically, rules and taboos. It was a character trait that got him into trouble time and again throughout his life....
1462 quotes from Henry Miller: 'The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.', 'A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.', and 'Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.'
Henry Miller: Self portrait. In 1934, Henry Miller, then aged forty-two and living in Paris, published his first book. In 1961 the book was finally published in his native land, where it promptly became a best-seller and a cause célèbre.
