Henry Miller
American novelist (Tropic of Cancer, 1934; Tropic of Capricorn, 1939; The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy) whose autobiographical-sexual-mystical fiction was banned in the United States until 1961. Met Mailer in person for the first time at the Edinburgh International Writers' Conference, 20–24 August 1962. Mailer's later book Genius and Lust (1976) is an anthology of Miller's writing with Mailer's introductions.
Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer (Obelisk, Paris, 1934) and the related Paris-period autobiographical novels were banned from sale in the United States as obscenity until the landmark 1961 Grove Press edition and the 1964 Supreme Court decision in Grove Press, Inc. v. Gerstein. Mailer and Miller met in person for the first time at the Edinburgh International Writers’ Conference, 20–24 August 1962 (62.24), where Mailer also first met William Burroughs. Mailer’s relationship with Miller as a precursor and counterpart deepened across the 1960s and culminated in Genius and Lust: A Journey through the Major Writings of Henry Miller (76.12, Grove, October 1976) — Mailer’s edited anthology of ten Miller books with 88 pages of his own commentary, his lengthiest piece of literary criticism. The book’s jacket drawing of Miller is by Norris Church Mailer.
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Related pages
- 1962 | Conference Remarks (Edinburgh International Writers' Conference) | Edinburgh International Writers' Conference, 1962
- Genius and Lust: A Journey through the Major Writings of Henry Miller (76.12)
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