Henry Miller Summary

Miller, Henry (1891-1980) Henry Miller is an American-born bohemian writer whose works, with D. H. Lawrence's, are the first respected books of the twentieth century containing explicit sex. Hi... Read more

Biography EssayHenry Miller was a leading example of a special kind of writer who is essentially seer and prophet, whose immediate ancestor was Rimbaud, and whose leading exponent was D. H. Lawrence. ... Read more

No American writer in Paris during the thirties captured so completely the experience of his generation as Henry Miller. He made Paris his permanent residence in 1930, and he stayed until 1939, absorb... Read more

In the following excerpt, McCarthy examines the reasons Henry Miller left New York City for Paris in the early 1930s, and discusses Miller's depiction of the city as the antithesis of American ... Read more

Critical Essay by Lawrence J. Shifreen Miller begins his study [in his series of short fictions Mezzotints] by creating a clichéd image of society as a limiting environment which forces indivi... Read more