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Henry Valentine Miller

Born 26 December 1891(1891-12-26)
Yorkville, Manhattan, New York City, United States
Died 7 June 1980 (aged 88)
Pacific Palisades
Occupation Writer, Painter
Genres Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Black Spring

Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980), was an American writer and painter. Events 1481 - Battle of Westbrook - Holland defeats troops of Utrecht. Year 1891 ( MDCCCXCI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Manhattan Island, in New York Harbor, is much the largest part of the Borough of Manhattan, one of the Five Boroughs which form the City of New York The City of New York The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Events 1099 - The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. A writer is anyone who creates a written work although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally as well as those who have written in many different forms Painting (pān'tīng in Art, is the practice of applying Color to a Surface (support base such as e A literary genre is a category of literary composition Genres may be determined by Literary technique, tone, Content, or even (as in the case of fiction Tropic of Cancer is a Novel by Henry Miller, first published in 1934 by Obelisk Press in Paris and still in print Tropic of Capricorn is a Novel by Henry Miller, first published in Paris in 1938. Black Spring is a novel published in 1936 by American Writer Henry Miller by Obelisk Press in Paris, France. Events 1481 - Battle of Westbrook - Holland defeats troops of Utrecht. Year 1891 ( MDCCCXCI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 1099 - The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A writer is anyone who creates a written work although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally as well as those who have written in many different forms Painting (pān'tīng in Art, is the practice of applying Color to a Surface (support base such as e He is known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of "novel" that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism, one that is distinctly always about and expressive of the real-life Henry Miller and yet is also fictional. Fiction is the telling of stories which are not real More specifically fiction is an imaginative form of Narrative, one of the four basic Rhetorical modes. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, and Black Spring. Tropic of Cancer is a Novel by Henry Miller, first published in 1934 by Obelisk Press in Paris and still in print Tropic of Capricorn is a Novel by Henry Miller, first published in Paris in 1938. Black Spring is a novel published in 1936 by American Writer Henry Miller by Obelisk Press in Paris, France. He also wrote travel memoirs and essays of literary criticism and analysis.

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Biography

Miller was born to tailor Heinrich Miller and Louise Marie Neiting, in the Yorkville section of Manhattan, New York City, of German Catholic heritage[1]. Manhattan Island, in New York Harbor, is much the largest part of the Borough of Manhattan, one of the Five Boroughs which form the City of New York The City of New York Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. As a child he lived at 662 Driggs Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, known in that time (and referred to frequently in his works) as The Fourteenth Ward. Williamsburg is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, bordering Greenpoint, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Bushwick As a young man, he was active with the Socialist Party (his "quondam idol" was the Black Socialist Hubert Harrison). Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the Means of production and distribution Hubert Henry Harrison (April 27 1883 - December 17 1927 a St Croix, Virgin Islands -born and Harlem -based writer orator educator critic and He briefly - for only two months - attended the City College of New York. The City College of The City University of New York (known more commonly as the City College of New York or simply City College, CCNY, or colloquially as Although he was an exceptional scholar, he could neither be anchored nor submit to the traditional college system of education.

In both 1928 and 1929, he spent several months in Paris with his second wife, June Edith Smith (June Miller) (his first wife was Beatrice Sylvas Wickens, whom he married in 1917). Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city June Mansfield Miller (b January 12 1902, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary &ndash d He moved to Paris the next year unaccompanied, where he lived until the outbreak of World War II. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including He lived an impecunious lifestyle that depended on the benevolence of friends, such as Anaïs Nin, who became his lover and financed the first printing of Tropic of Cancer in 1934. Anaïs Nin ana'iːs nin (born Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell) ( February 21 1903 - January 14 1977) was Tropic of Cancer is a Novel by Henry Miller, first published in 1934 by Obelisk Press in Paris and still in print [2]

In the fall of 1931, Miller got a job with the Chicago Tribune (Paris edition) as a proofreader, thanks to his friend Alfred Perlès who worked there. The Chicago Tribune is a major daily Newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and owned by the Tribune Company Proofreading traditionally means reading a proof copy of a text in order to detect and correct any errors Alfred Perlès (1897 - 1990 was an Austrian writer (in later life a British citizen who was most famous for his associations with Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell Miller took the opportunity to submit some of his articles under Perlès name, since only the editorial staff were permitted to publish in the paper in 1934. This period in Paris was highly creative for Miller, and during this time he also established a significant and influential network of authors circulating around the Villa Seurat. [3]

His works contain detailed accounts of sexual experiences, and his books did much to free the discussion of sexual subjects in American writing from both legal and social restrictions. He continued to write novels that were banned in the United States on grounds of obscenity. Along with Tropic of Cancer, his Black Spring (1936), and Tropic of Capricorn (1939), were smuggled into his native country, building Miller an underground reputation. Tropic of Cancer is a Novel by Henry Miller, first published in 1934 by Obelisk Press in Paris and still in print Black Spring is a novel published in 1936 by American Writer Henry Miller by Obelisk Press in Paris, France. Tropic of Capricorn is a Novel by Henry Miller, first published in Paris in 1938. One of the first acknowledgments of Henry Miller as a major modern writer was by George Orwell in his 1940 essay Inside the Whale, where he wrote:

“ Here in my opinion is the only imaginative prose-writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950 who used the Pseudonym George Orwell, was an English writer Even if that is objected to as an overstatement, it will probably be admitted that Miller is a writer out of the ordinary, worth more than a single glance; and after all, he is a completely negative, unconstructive, amoral writer, a mere Jonah, a passive acceptor of evil, a sort of Whitman among the corpses. ”

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In 1940, he returned to the United States, settling in Big Sur, California, and continued to produce his vividly written works that challenged contemporary American cultural values and moral attitudes. Big Sur is a sparsely populated region of the central California, United States, coast where the Santa Lucia Mountains rise abruptly from the He spent the last years of his life in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California. Pacific Palisades is a district within the US city of Los Angeles California, located between Brentwood to the east Malibu to the west Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West

While Miller was establishing his base in Big Sur, The tropics books, still banned in the USA, were being published in France. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. There they were acquiring a slow and steady notoriety amongst both the Europeans and the various enclaves of American cultural exiles. As a result, the books were being frequently smuggled into the states, where they would prove to be a major influence on the new Beat generation of American writers (most notably Jack Kerouac) some of which would adopt many stylistic and thematic principles found in Miller's oeuvre. Jack Kerouac ( March 12 1922 &ndash October 21 1969) was an American Novelist, Writer, Poet, and

The publication of Miller's Tropic of Cancer in the United States in 1961 led to a series of obscenity trials that tested American laws on pornography. Pornography or porn is the explicit depiction of Sexual subject matter with the sole intention of sexually exciting the viewer The U.S. Supreme Court, in Grove Press, Inc. The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States and leads the federal judiciary. , v. Gerstein, citing Jacobellis v. Ohio (which was decided the same day in 1964), overruled the state court findings of obscenity and declared the book a work of literature; it was one of the notable events in what has come to be known as the sexual revolution. Jacobellis v Ohio, 378 US 184 ( 1964) was a United States Supreme Court decision handed down in 1964 involving whether the state of Ohio could Obscenity (in Latin obscenus, meaning "foul repulsive detestable" is a term that is most often used in a legal context to The sexual revolution refers to the well-documented changes in social thought and codes of behaviour related to sexuality throughout the Western world that continues to evolve Elmer Gertz, the lawyer who successfully argued the initial case for the novel's publication in Illinois, became a lifelong friend of Miller's. Elmer Gertz ( September 14, 1906 - April 27, 2000) was an American Lawyer, writer and Civil rights activist The State of Illinois ( roughly ill-i-NOY is a state of the United States of America, the 21st to be admitted to the Union. Volumes of their correspondence have been published. [5]

In addition to his literary abilities, Miller was a painter and wrote books about his painting. He was a close friend of the French painter Grégoire Michonze. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Grégoire Michonze (1902-1982 (variant name Grégoire Michonznic) was a Russian French painter born in 1902 in Kishinev ( Bessarabia He was also an amateur pianist.

Before his death, Miller filmed with Warren Beatty for his film Reds. Warren Beatty (born Henry Warren Beaty; March 30 1937 is an American Academy Award - and Golden Globe -winning Actor, producer Reds is a 1981 film starring Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton. It centers on the life of John Reed, the Communist, journalist He spoke of his remembrances of John Reed and Louise Bryant as part of a series of cameos or witnesses. John "Jack" Silas Reed ( October 22, 1887 &ndash October 19, 1920) was an American Journalist, Poet Louise Bryant ( December 5, 1885 &ndash January 6, 1936) American Journalist and writer was best known for her The film was released a year and a half after Miller's death.

Miller died in Pacific Palisades. After his death, he was cremated and his ashes scattered off Big Sur.

Miller's papers were donated to the UCLA Young Research Library Department of Special Collections. The Library system of the University of California Los Angeles is among the top 10 academic research libraries in North America and has in its collection over eight million The Henry Miller Art Museum at Coast Gallery in Big Sur, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and UCLA all hold a selection of Miller's watercolors, as did The Henry Miller Museum of Art in Omachi City in Nagano, Japan, before closing in 2003. The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center is a Library and Archive at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in the collection of literary and The University of California Los Angeles (generally known as UCLA) is a public research university located in Westwood Los Angeles, California, United is a city located in Nagano, Japan. As of 2008 the city has an estimated Population of 31079 and the Population density of 55 persons WikipediaWikiProject Japanese prefectures for guidelines --> is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of the island of Honshū For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. A portion of the correspondences between the Grove Press and Henry Miller are currently housed in the Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University. Special Collections at the University of Victoria holds a significant collection of Miller's manuscripts and correspondences, including the corrected typescript for Max and Quiet Days in Clichy, as well as Miller's lengthy correspondence with Alfred Perlès. The University of Victoria (UVic is located in Greater Victoria British Columbia, Canada (northeast of Victoria)

Works

Films

Miller was portrayed by Fred Ward in the 1990 movie Henry & June, and by Rip Torn in the 1970 film adaptation of Tropic of Cancer. Fred Ward (born December 30, 1942) is an American Actor. He began his career in 1979 alongside Clint Eastwood in Escape The year 1990 in film involved some significant events Events CGI technique is expanded with motion capture for Henry & June is a 1990 Film. It was directed by Philip Kaufman and stars Fred Ward, Maria de Medeiros, Rip Torn (born February 6, 1931) is an American Television and Film Actor, who is perhaps best known for his role as Artie The year 1970 in film involved some significant events Events February 11 - The film The Magic Christian Tropic of Cancer is a Novel by Henry Miller, first published in 1934 by Obelisk Press in Paris and still in print In the 1970 Jens Jørgen Thorsen adaptation of Quiet Days in Clichy, the Miller-based character of 'Joey' was played by the late Paul Valjean. The year 1970 in film involved some significant events Events February 11 - The film The Magic Christian Jens Jørgen Thorsen ( February 2, 1932 Copenhagen - November 15, 2000) was a Danish Artist whose artwork sometimes A subsequent adaptation in 1990 saw Andrew McCarthy play the Miller role as "Henry Miller" himself. Andrew McCarthy (born November 29, 1962) is an American Actor.

References

  1. ^ [1] ". . . largely German-speaking neighborhood (Miller's grandparents had emigrated from Germany"
  2. ^ Ferguson, Robert. Henry Miller: A Life. New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.
  3. ^ Gifford, James. Ed. The Henry Miller-Herbert Read Letters: 1935-58. Ann Arbor: Roger Jackson Inc. , 2007.
  4. ^ [Orwell, George. "Inside the Whale. " London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. , 1940. http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/essays/inside-the-whale1.htm]
  5. ^ Hutchison, Earl R. Tropic of Cancer on Trial: A Case History of Censorship. New York: Grove Press, 1968.

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