20th Century American writer
Henry Miller (1891-1980) was born in New York, and spent his childhood in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. In the late '20s, Miller came to Paris with his wife June, and became acquainted with Anaïs Nin, who would become his lover and patron. Nin was the first publisher of Tropic of Cancer, which was the subject of a landmark obscenity trial when it was published in the U.S. in 1961. Miller's writing, which was often sexually explicit, blended fiction, memoir, personal philosophy and social commentary. Forbidden by authorities, his books were smuggled into the US and became highly influential on the new generation of Beat writers. His later years were spent writing and painting in Big Sur, on the coast of California.
Sextet
The Colossus Of Maroussi
Sunday After The War
A Devil in Paradise
Aller Retour New York
Into the Heart of Life
Letters To Emil
From Your Capricorn Friend
Just Wild About Harry
The Smile At The Foot Of The Ladder
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
The Cosmological Eye
The Henry Miller Reader
Stand Still Like The Hummingbird
Henry Miller On Writing
Big Sur and the Oranges Of Hieronymus Bosch
The Time Of The Assassins
The Books In My Life
Remember To Remember
The Wisdom Of The Heart
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
“I bow in reverence.”
— Henry Miller, The Books in My Life on Blaise Cendrars
“The Journal of Albion Moonlight is a work of unmistakable genius; in all of English literature it stands alone. Albion Moonlight is the most naked figure of a man I have encountered in all literature.”
— Henry Miller on Kenneth Patchen's The Journal Of Albion Moonlight
“Sherwood Anderson had the patience not just of the artist but of the religious man: he knew that there was bright shiny ore beneath the scabby crust.”
— Henry Miller on Sherwood Anderson
“Despite the seemingly unrelieved gloom and futility in which his figures move, Cossery nevertheless expresses in every work the indomitable faith in the power of people to throw off the yoke.”
— Henry Miller on Albert Cossery
“Sherwood Anderson had the patience not just of the artist but of the religious man: he knew that there was bright shiny ore beneath the scabby crust.”
— Henry Miller on Poor White
René Daumal
Carson McCullers
Jean-Francois Bory
Nathanael West
Guy Davenport
José Emilio Pacheco
Martin Brady