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Tropic of Cancer is an autobiographical novel by Henry Miller that is best known as "notorious for its candid sexuality", with the resulting social controversy considered responsible for the "free speech that we now take for granted in literature."
Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) 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.
The Miller Center multimedia files are taken from the presidential libraries of the presidents they depict. The files are therefore within the public domain, both as works of US Government employees conducted during their work, and as a part of the National Archive. Video files from the Miller Center are watermarked by the center.
Black Spring was Miller's second published book, following Tropic of Cancer and preceding Tropic of Capricorn. The book was written in 1932-33 while Miller was living in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine (aka Clichy), a northwestern suburb of Paris. Like Tropic of Cancer, the book is dedicated to Anaïs Nin.
The Henry Miller Reader, ed. Lawrence Durrell, New York: New Directions, 1959. Nexus (Book three of The Rosy Crucifixion), Paris: Obelisk Press, 1960. New York: Grove Press, 1965. ISBN 0-8021-5178-7; Stand Still Like the Hummingbird, New York: New Directions, 1962. ISBN 0-8112-0322-0; Henry Miller on Writing, New York: New Directions, 1964.
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Tropic of Capricorn is a semi-autobiographical novel by Henry Miller, first published by Obelisk Press in Paris in 1939. A prequel of sorts to Miller's first published novel, 1934's Tropic of Cancer, it was banned in the United States until a 1961 Justice Department ruling declared that its contents were not obscene.
The Rosy Crucifixion, a trilogy consisting of Sexus, Plexus, and Nexus, is a fictionalized account documenting the six-year period of Henry Miller's life in Brooklyn as he falls for his second wife June and struggles to become a writer, leading up to his initial departure for Paris in 1928.