Henry Miller

Henry Miller grew up in Brooklyn, New York. As a young man, he was active in the socialist party and attended the City College of New York for one semester. While living in NYC in the 1920s, Miller wrote his first novels, Clipped Wings, and Moloch: or, This Gentle World. Throughout the 1930s, Miller lived in Paris, where he famously had an affair with Anaïs Nin and wrote his most famous novels, Tropic of Cancer (1934) and Tropic of Capricorn (1939), both of which were banned in the U.S. until 1964 for their sexual content. Miller later lived in Greece before moving to California. He was married five times and had two children, daughter Valentine and son Anthony.