Henry Miller

Henry Miller was born in 1891 in New York, the son of a tailor of German origin, and grew up in Brooklyn. He left City College after two months and from 1920 to 1924 ran the recruitment of messengers at Western Union. He left for Paris in 1930, at thirty-eight, lived there without money, and did not publish there until he was forty-two. Back in the United States in 1940, he settled in 1944 in Big Sur, California. Married five times, he died in 1980 in Pacific Palisades, aged eighty-eight.

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• NovelTropic of CancerHenry Miller · 1934Literature