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Henry Valentine Miller ( 26 December 1891 - 7 June 1980 ) American writer Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Tropic of Cancer 1.2 Other works 1.3 Henry Miller on Writing (1964) 2 Attributed 3 External links // Sourced Tropic of Cancer This is not a book. This is...


Biography

Name: Henry Miller
Birth Date: December 26, 1891
Death Date: June 7, 1980
Place of Birth: New York, New York, United States
Place of Death: Pacific Palisades, California, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer

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Biography of Henry Miller
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American author Henry Miller (1891-1980) was a major literary force in the late 1950s largely because his two most important novels, prohibited from publication and sale in the United States for many years, tested Federal laws concerning art and...
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Biography of Henry Miller
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Henry 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. This kind of writer is characterized by his vulnerability to...
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Biography of Henry (Valentine) Miller
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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, absorbing and celebrating the city which so many American...


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Miller, Henry (1891-1980) Summary
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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. His first and most famous book is Tropic of Cancer (1934), an autobiographical...
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Henry Miller Information
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Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980), was an American writer and painter. 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,...


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Monarch Notes
Works of Henry James: Daisy Miller (1879)
01/01/1963: 1,720 words, approx. 6 pages
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Daisy Miller (1879) Introduction: Daisy Miller: A Study first appeared in Cornhill Magazine in England in 1878 and came out in book form the following year. This publication occurred after an American publisher had rejected it. The story was an immediate...
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The Washington Post
Big Sur & the Legacy of Henry Miller
09/08/1988: 768 words, approx. 3 pages
The year was 1944. Henry Miller was living in a three-room shack in Los Angeles and he could not write. "He found no inspiration in Los Angeles at the time and was very frustrated," longtime friend Emil White said. "The people didn't inspire...
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AP Features
New guide to literary Monterey, Calif.
1/30/2007: 420 words, approx. 1 pages
A new tourism map of Monterey County can help you plan a literary pilgrimage to places associated with John Steinbeck, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and many other writers.The "Scenes For Your Senses Literary & Film Map," produced by the Monterey County Convention...
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Victims of Manhattan steam explosion go to court to force utility company to preserve evidence
8/15/2007: 262 words, approx. 1 pages
Lawyers for a tow truck driver badly burned in last month's Manhattan steam pipe explosion went to court Wednesday seeking an injunction to keep utility company Consolidated Edison from destroying evidence at the scene.Ken Thompson, a lawyer for injured driver Gregory McCullough, said he was...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Harold T. McCarthy
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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 racial segregation.
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Critical Essay by Lawrence J. Shifreen
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Miller begins his study [in his series of short fictions Mezzotints] by creating a clichéd image of society as a limiting environment which forces individuals into a patterned existence based on work and sleep. This concept affords no new insights into human nature but is a typical device used in the 1920's by writers who wished to study the "types" of people who inhabit New York. The routine Miller depicts of rising early to go to work and returning home to sleep, shows that he ...
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Critical Essay by George Stade
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"Wear any uniform so long as it's not yours," advises Henry Miller, and the various uniforms of bum, stud, psychopomp, jeremiah, and saint he wears in his books never quite fit the forms and motions we see behind the garb and the gab. The protagonist of his books, name of Henry Miller, describes himself as being such-and-such, and this so-and-so varies from book to book, from passage to passage. But we do not see him as he sees himself. The figure we make out from passage to passage exp...


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