The Guardian: Beat generation writer Henry Miller dies – archive, 9 June 1980
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Henry Miller
Henry Valentine Miller was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. He broke with existing literary forms and developed a new type of semi-autobiographical novel that blends character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, stream of consciousness, explicit language, sex, surrealist free association, and mysticism. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of C…
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culture · American novelist (1891–1980) · painter · novelist · short story writer · essayist · correspondent · writer · watercolorist · artist · also Henry Miller, Genri Miller, Henri Miller, Phineas Flapdoodle, Henry Valentine Miller, Miller
Born 26 December 1891 · Died 7 June 1980 · Q187765
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Trevor White in the TV series The Durrells in Corfu season 3, episodes 3 and 7, as recurring role
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2015· 1 entry
The Guardian: Tracey Emin and Henry Miller: a perfect match
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2014· 1 entry
The Guardian: Why Henry Miller and Louis-Ferdinand Céline deserve success as well as scandal
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2013· 1 entry
The Guardian: How Henry Miller's anti-establishment rant liberated me from little England | John Vidal
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2012· 2 entries
The Guardian: From the archive, 1 October 1965: 'I am somebody', Henry Miller says
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The Guardian: Renegade: Henry Miller and the Making of Tropic of Cancer by Frederick Turner – review
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1980· 6 entries
Died 1980-06-07.
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“A ciência ainda procura, o amor encontrou.”
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“Wyobraź sobie, że nie masz niczego w dłoniach oprócz swego losu. Siedzisz na progu łona swej matki i zabijasz czas, albo czas zabija ciebie. Siedzisz tam wyśpiewując doksologię rzeczy niepojętych. Na zewnątrz, na zawsze na zewnątrz.”
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“Nie mam majątku, gotówki, nadziei. Jestem najszczęśliwszym człowiekiem na ziemi.”
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“Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation.[…] The other eight are unimportant.”
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“Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.”
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1973· 1 entry
Miller was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature by University of Copenhagen professor Allan Philip
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1968· 1 entry
Miller signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War
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1967· 1 entry
Miller married his fifth wife, Japanese-born singer and actress Hoki Tokuda (ja:ホキ徳田)
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1964· 1 entry
“An Interview with Henry Miller”
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1961· 2 entries
By Grove Press led to a series of obscenity trials that tested American laws on pornography
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Miller arranged a reunion in New York with his ex-wife June, the main subject of The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy
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1960· 1 entry
And she died in 1966, likely as a result of alcoholism
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1959· 1 entry
Was initially banned in the US, published only in France and Japan
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1957· 2 entries
“Henry Miller Recalls and Reflects”
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Is a collection of stories about his life and friends in Big Sur
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1948· 1 entry
Miller wrote a novella he called his "most singular story", The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder
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1944· 1 entry
Miller met and married his third wife, Janina Martha Lepska, a philosophy student who was 30 years his junior
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1942· 1 entry
Shortly before moving to California, Miller began writing Sexus, the first novel in The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy, a fictionalized account of the six-year period of his life in Brooklyn falling in love with June and strug
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1941· 1 entry
When Miller, Anaïs Nin, and others in their literary circle produced erotic stories for a private collector who paid them one dollar per page
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1940· 1 entry
Miller returned to New York
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1939· 2 entries
New Directions published The Cosmological Eye, Miller's first book to be published in the US
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Durrell, who was living in Corfu, Greece, invited Miller to Greece
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1938· 1 entry
In Black Spring and Max and the White Phagocytes
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1934· 1 entry
June divorced Miller by proxy in Mexico City
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1931· 2 entries
Miller was employed by the Chicago Tribune Paris edition as a proofreader, thanks to his friend Alfred Perlès, who worked there
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“Opis: w sierpniu 1931 w liście do przyjaciela.”
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1930· 1 entry
Miller moved to Paris unaccompanied
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1928· 1 entry
Miller spent several months in Paris with June, a trip financed by Freedman
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1924· 1 entry
Miller quit Western Union to dedicate himself completely to writing
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1923· 1 entry
While still married to Beatrice, Miller met and became enamored of a mysterious dance-hall ingénue who was born Juliet Edith Smerth but went by the stage-name June Mansfield
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1900· 1 entry
His family moved to 1063 Decatur Street in Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood
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1891· 1 entry
Born 1891-12-26.
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