MILLER (Henry Valentine, 1891-1980, American Writer, Author of the “Tropic of Cancer” and the “Tropic of Capricorn”)

Autograph Letter Signed on a Picture Postcard to Dr Johan Wallin in Sweden, saying that he expects “to be here when you arrive in June. Please call me when you arrive. The telephone number is 454-408 (unlisted). If I don’t answer, leaver your name & number with my answering service...”, on the verso of a coloured reproduction of his painting ‘One Fish’, 6” x 4”, no place but with an American stamp, 5th August

Miller 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. 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 also wrote travel memoirs and literary criticism, and painted watercolours.

Item Date:  1973

Stock No:  42333      £500

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