Miller, Henry (Valentine)

Miller, Henry (Valentine)
born Dec. 26, 1891, New York, N.Y., U.S.
died June 7, 1980, Pacific Palisades, Calif.

U.S. writer and perennial bohemian.

Miller wrote about his Brooklyn, N.Y., childhood in Black Spring (1936). Tropic of Cancer (1934), a monologue about his life as an impoverished expatriate in Paris, and Tropic of Capricorn (1939), which draws on his earlier New York phase, were banned as obscene in the U.S. and Britain until the 1960s. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (1945) is a critical account of a tour of the U.S. He settled on the California coast, where he became the centre of a colony of admirers and wrote his Rosy Crucifixion trilogy, Sexus, Plexus, and Nexus (U.S. ed., 1965).

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  • Miller,Henry Valentine — Miller, Henry Valentine. 1891 1980. American writer whose novels Tropic of Cancer (1934) and Tropic of Capricorn (1939) were banned in the United States because of their sexual content. * * * …   Universalium

  • Miller, Henry (Valentine) — (26 dic. 1891, Nueva York, N.Y., EE.UU.–7 jun. 1980, Pacific Palisades, Cal.). Escritor y eterno bohemio estadounidense. Miller escribió sobre su infancia en Brooklyn, N.Y., en la obra Primavera negra (1936). Las novelas Trópico de Cáncer (1934) …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • Henry Valentine Miller — noun United States novelist whose novels were originally banned as pornographic (1891 1980) • Syn: ↑Miller, ↑Henry Miller • Instance Hypernyms: ↑writer, ↑author …   Useful english dictionary

  • Miller — Miller, Arthur Miller, George A. Miller, Glenn Miller, Henry Miller, índices de * * * (as used in expressions) Mary Boykin Miller Hemingway, Ernest (Miller) Miller, Arthur Miller, George A(rmitage) Miller, (Alton) Glenn Miller, Henry (Valentine)… …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • Miller — /mil euhr/, n. 1. Arthur, born 1915, U.S. playwright and novelist. 2. Glenn, 1904 44, U.S. dance bandleader and trombonist. 3. Henry, 1891 1980, U.S. novelist. 4. Joaquin /wah keen /, (Cincinnatus Heine Miller), 1841 1913, U.S. poet. 5 …   Universalium

  • henry — /hen ree/, n., pl. henries, henrys. Elect. the SI unit of inductance, formally defined to be the inductance of a closed circuit in which an electromotive force of one volt is produced when the electric current in the circuit varies uniformly at a …   Universalium

  • Henry — /hen ree/, n. 1. Joseph, 1797 1878, U.S. physicist. 2. O., pen name of William Sydney Porter. 3. Patrick, 1736 99, American patriot, orator, and statesman. 4. Cape, a cape in SE Virginia at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. 5. Fort. See …   Universalium

  • Henry — ► sustantivo masculino ELECTRICIDAD Denominación del henrio en la nomenclatura internacional. IRREG. plural henrys * * * henrio o henry (de J. Henry, físico inglés) m. Fís. Unidad de inductancia eléctrica en el Sistema Internacional. * * * …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • henry — ► sustantivo masculino ELECTRICIDAD Denominación del henrio en la nomenclatura internacional. IRREG. plural henrys * * * henrio o henry (de J. Henry, físico inglés) m. Fís. Unidad de inductancia eléctrica en el Sistema Internacional. * * * henry …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • Henry Miller — noun United States novelist whose novels were originally banned as pornographic (1891 1980) • Syn: ↑Miller, ↑Henry Valentine Miller • Instance Hypernyms: ↑writer, ↑author * * * Henry Miller …   Useful english dictionary

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