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I didn’t have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let’s say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing! - Henry Miller Attribution: Henry Miller (1891–1980), U.S. author. “A Fortune in Francs,” pt. 2, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymous Bosch (1957). On the composition of Tropic of Capricorn. Miller added, “How could I possibly imagine then that some few years later a judicial triumvirate, eager to prove me a sinner, would accuse me of having written such passages ‘for gain’?...”

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Henry Miller

Titles by Henry Miller:

• The Rosy Crucifixion
• Tropic of Cancer
• Tropic of Capricorn

Encyclopedia:

• Miller, Henry (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)
• Miller, Henry Valentine (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• Henry Miller (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
• Henry Miller (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
• Henry Miller (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Henry Miller (Identities and Issues in Literature)
• Henry Miller (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

Literary Criticism:

• Miller, Henry (Vol. 9) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Miller, Henry (Vol. 4) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Miller, Henry (Vol. 1) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Miller, Henry (Vol. 14) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Miller, Henry (Vol. 2) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Tropic of Cancer Miller, Henry (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Daisy Miller, Henry James (Short Story Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Henry Miller is born
• Henry Miller publishes Tropic of Cancer
• Henry Miller publishes Black Spring
• Henry Miller publishes Tropic of Capricorn
• Henry Miller dies