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Henry Miller


Born
in New York City, The United States
December 26, 1891

Died
June 07, 1980

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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 blended 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 Cancer, Black Spring, Tropic of Capricorn, and the trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, which are based on his experiences in New York City and Paris (all of which were banned in the United States until 1961). He also wrote travel memoirs and literary criticism, and painted watercolors.

Average rating: 3.76 · 170,486 ratings · 11,713 reviews · 982 distinct worksSimilar authors
Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)

3.65 avg rating — 78,038 ratings — published 1934 — 145 editions
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Tropic of Capricorn (Tropic...

3.81 avg rating — 21,326 ratings — published 1939 — 45 editions
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Sexus (The Rosy Crucifixion...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10,223 ratings — published 1949 — 15 editions
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Quiet Days in Clichy

3.61 avg rating — 6,109 ratings — published 1956 — 81 editions
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Black Spring

3.81 avg rating — 5,645 ratings — published 1936 — 109 editions
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The Colossus of Maroussi

3.96 avg rating — 5,304 ratings — published 1941 — 137 editions
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Plexus (The Rosy Crucifixio...

4.11 avg rating — 4,510 ratings — published 1952 — 119 editions
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Nexus (The Rosy Crucifixion...

4.11 avg rating — 4,257 ratings — published 1959 — 113 editions
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Big Sur and the Oranges of ...

4.02 avg rating — 3,430 ratings — published 1957 — 14 editions
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The Air-Conditioned Nightma...

3.81 avg rating — 3,504 ratings — published 1945 — 58 editions
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Quotes by Henry Miller  (?)
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“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
Henry Miller

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

“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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October 2025 New School Classics Poll

 
  53 votes, 31.9%

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (1934) 318 pages
 
  50 votes, 30.1%

Red Dragon by Thomas Harris (1981) 454 pages
 
  28 votes, 16.9%

Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb (1937) 299 pages
 
  18 votes, 10.8%

 
  17 votes, 10.2%

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