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Henry Miller
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26 December 1891 - 7 June 1980
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American writer and artist Henry Miller is the author of scandalous intellectual and erotic novels about the world and fate of the writer. He was born in New York, USA, on December 26, 1891 in a family of immigrants from Germany. Henry Miller's father owned a men's dress atelier, and the writer's family lived in prosperity. In 1917, Miller married Beatrice Silvas Weekens. They had a daughter, Barbara. To feed the family, the couple gave music lessons. Later, Henry took the place of a manager for
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American writer and artist Henry Miller is the author of scandalous intellectual and erotic novels about the world and fate of the writer. He was born in New York, USA, on December 26, 1891 in a family of immigrants from Germany. Henry Miller's father owned a men's dress atelier, and the writer's family lived in prosperity.
In 1917, Miller married Beatrice Silvas Weekens. They had a daughter, Barbara. To feed the family, the couple gave music lessons. Later, Henry took the place of a manager for hire in a telegraph company, where he worked for about 7 years. By this time, the marriage began to crack at the seams.
When Henry met June Edith Smith, his life changed dramatically. She became Miller's second wife, his "energy co-author." June insisted that he quit his job and devote himself entirely to literature. The couple frequently attended discussions on psychoanalysis, sexual freedom, and homosexuality. During this period of his life, Henry studied painting, took painting lessons from his wife’s friend. Miller goes to Europe, lives in France, in Paris, meets various writers. His long walks in Paris turned into magnificent sketches of the city, submitted in the novel Tropic of Cancer (1934). This was followed by two more novels of the autobiographical trilogy - Black Spring (1936) and Tropic of Capricorn (1939), Miller's most famous novels.
In 1932, Miller met the daughter of Spanish composer Anais Nin. Their correspondence and general craving for spiritual exhibitionism developed into a novel. They were soon married. Thanks to his wife’s security, Miller was able to work on novels without being distracted by pressing problems. In 1940 he returned to the United States and settled in Big Sur. Here he met with creative people, wrote paintings and an autobiographical novel “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch” (1957) The second famous trilogy “The Noble Crucifixion” was published, composed of the novels “Sexus” (1949), “Plecus” (1953) and “Nexus” (1960).
He died in 1980.