Henry Miller

Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American novelist known for his controversial autobiographical works. His most famous work is Tropic of Cancer.¹

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)
• Why Abstract? (1945) _{^{with Hilaire Hiler and William Saroyan}}
• 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)
• Nights of Love and Laughter (1955)
• Quiet Days in Clichy (1956)
• A Devil in Paradise (1956)
• Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (1957)
• The Henry Miller Reader (1959)
• 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)
• Sextet (1977)
• My Bike and Other Friends (1978)
• Joey: A Loving Portrait of Alfred Perlès Together With Some Bizarre Episodes Relating to the Opposite Sex (1979)
• The World of Lawrence: A Passionate Appreciation (1980)

Plays

• Just Wild About Harry (1963)

Letters

• Hamlet Letters Volume I (1939)
• Hamlet Letters Volume II (1941)
• The Plight of the Creative Artist in the United States of America (1944)
• Semblance of a Devoted Past (1944)
• Reunion in Barcelona: a Letter to Alfred Perlès, from Aller Retour New York (1959)
• Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller: A Private Correspondence (1963)
• A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953 (1987)
• The Durrell-Miller Letters, 1935-80 (1988)
• From Your Capricorn Friend: Henry Miller and the Stroker, 1978-1980 (1984)
• Letters to Emil (1989)
• Proteus and the Magician: The Letters of Henry Miller and John Cowper Powys (2014)

See also

• Henry Miller quotes

External Links

• Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal
• Henry Miller Personal Collection (by his daughter Valentine)
• The Henry Miller Library
• Henry Miller collection at the University of California Irvine
• FBI File on Henry Miller
• Goodreads profile
• IMDb profile
• Works on Open Library

References

1. “Henry Miller.” Encyclopedia Britannica. Accessed July 29, 2020.