Henry Miller
Henry Valentine 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 City and Paris. He also wrote travel memoirs and literary criticism, and painted watercolors.
26 December 1891
Born on the same birth day (26 December): Ahmed Barusso • Aksel Lund Svindal • Andrew Lock • Elisabeth of the Palatinate • Esteban Fuertes • Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald • Jean Toomer • Kathleen Crowley • Kenneth Darby • Norm Ullman • Richard Mayes • Tamara Zidanšek • Trevor Siemian • Vinicio Cerezo
Born in the same month (December 1891): A. P. Carter • Edward Bernard Raczyński • Kenneth Anderson (British Army officer) • Maksim Bahdanovič • Nelly Sachs • Otto Dix • Thomas Farrell (United States Army officer)