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Henry Miller

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born
in Yorkville, Manhattan, New York City, The United States
December 26, 1891

died
June 07, 1980

gender
male

genre
Literature & Fiction

influences
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Blaise Cendrars, Arthur Rimbaud


About this author

Henry Miller sought to reestablish the freedom to live without the conventional restraints of civilization. His books are potpourris of sexual description, quasi-philosophical speculation, reflection on literature and society, surrealistic imaginings, and autobiographical incident.

After living in Paris in the 1930s, he returned to the United States and settled in Big Sur, Calif. Miller's first two works, Tropic of Cancer (Paris, 1934) and Tropic of Capricorn (Paris, 1939), were denied publication in the U.S. until the early 1960s because of alleged obscenity. The Colossus of Maroussi (1941), a travel book of modern Greece, is considered by some critics his best work. His other writings include the Rosy Crucifixion Trilogy — Sexus (1949), P...more


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Average rating: 3.82 · 55,017 ratings · 2,783 reviews · 135 distinct works · Similar authors
Tropic of Cancer
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 23,594 ratings — published 1934 — 113 editions
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Tropic of Capricorn
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 7,639 ratings — published 1938 — 53 editions
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Sexus (The Rosy Crucifixion...
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 3,831 ratings — published 1949 — 47 editions
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Black Spring
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 2,326 ratings — published 1936 — 20 editions
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Plexus (The Rosy Crucifixio...
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 1,911 ratings — published 1952 — 28 editions
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Nexus (The Rosy Crucifixion...
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 1,871 ratings — published 1959 — 28 editions
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Quiet Days in Clichy
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 1,711 ratings — published 1955 — 27 editions
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The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 1,543 ratings — published 1945 — 10 editions
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Big Sur and the Oranges of ...
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 1,314 ratings — published 1957 — 11 editions
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The Colossus of Maroussi
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 1,231 ratings — published 1941 — 26 editions
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Series by Henry Miller

Sexus Plexus Nexus
The Rosy Crucifixion (3 books)
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Quotes by Henry Miller

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life
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“Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.”
― Henry Miller, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
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“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
― Henry Miller
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