![]() In 1900, his family moved to 1063 Decatur Street in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. As a child, he lived for nine years at 662 Driggs Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, known at that time (and referred to frequently in his works) as the Fourteenth Ward. He was the son of Lutheran German parents, Louise Marie (Neiting) and tailor Heinrich Miller. Miller was born at his family's home, 450 East 85th Street, in the Yorkville section of Manhattan, New York City. He also wrote travel memoirs and literary criticism, and painted watercolors. 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 and Paris (all of which were banned in the United States until 1961). 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. ![]() Henry Valentine Miller (Decem– June 7, 1980) was an American novelist. ![]()
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