Henry Miller was an American writer known for blending genres and using explicit sexual content in his works. He attended City College briefly but was successful in publishing travel writing, literary analysis, and criticism. His most famous works include Sexus, Nexus, Plexus, Tropic of Cancer, and Tropic of Capricorn.
Henry Miller, born Henry Valentine Miller the day after Christmas in 1891, was an American writer. His parents were Heinrich Miller, a tailor, and Louise Marie Neiting. Although Henry Miller was born in Manhattan, he grew up in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. At the time, that area of Brooklyn was called “The Fourteenth Ward.” Miller often used this term to refer to the area in his writings.
As a writer, Miller is known for blending genres. Many of his texts that are defined as “novels” are actually a mixture of fiction, non-fiction, autobiography, social commentary, philosophy, erotica and fantasy. To further complicate matters, several of his “novels” include a character called “Henry Miller.” This character is generally accepted to be a separate individual from the author rather than merely a fictionalized version of him. Therefore, in discussions of his works, it is important to indicate whether or not the author or character is being referred to.
Due to the explicit sexual content of his books, Henry Miller’s books were banned in the United States and the author was prosecuted for obscenity. He was a close friend, and even in love, with the author Anais Nin, also famous for the sexual content of her works.
Henry Miller is generally regarded as a very intelligent man, even an intellectual. However, he has not subscribed to or adhered to traditional academic structures. He attended the City College of New York very briefly, leaving after only two months of study. Despite her short stint in academia, Miller has successfully published pieces of travel writing, literary analysis, and literary criticism. His scholarship was independent. In addition to being a writer, Miller was a painter and pianist.
Below you will find a list of many of Henry Miller’s works. Although he published extensively in his lifetime, he is probably best known for a selection of his own novels: Sexus, Nexus, Plexus, Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn.
List of works
Tropic of Cancer
What are you going to do with Alf?
Black spring
Max and the white phagocytes
Tropic of Capricorn
The cosmological eye
The World of Sex, Chicago
Under the roofs of Paris
The Colossus of Maroussi
The wisdom of the heart
Sunday after the war
Semblance of a devoted past
The plight of the creative artist in the United States of America
Echolalia
Henry Miller Miscellaneous
The nightmare of air conditioning
Maurice forever
Remember to Remember
In nightlife
The smile at the foot of the ladder
Sexus (First Book of The Rosy Crucifixion)
The waters shine
The books of my life
Plexus (Second Book of the Rosa Crucifixion)
Quiet days in Clichy, Paris
Recalls and reflections
The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud
Big Sur and Hieronymus Bosch’s Oranges
The red notebook
Meeting in Barcelona
Nexus (Book Three of the Rosy Crucifixion)
To paint is to love again
Stand still like the hummingbird
Just crazy about Harry
Greece
Opera Pistorum
Insomnia or the devil in general
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