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Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 ? June 7, 1980), was an American writer and painter. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of "novel" that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism, one that is distinctly always about and expressive of the real-life Henry Miller and yet is also fictional. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, and Black Spring. He also wrote travel memoirs and essays of literary criticism and analysis.

Miller was born to tailor Heinrich Miller and Louise Marie Neiting, in the Yorkville section of Manhattan, New York City, of German Catholic heritage.[1] As a child he lived at 662 Driggs Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, known in that time (and referred to frequently in his works) as The Fourteenth Ward. As a young man, he was active with the Socialist Party (his "quondam idol" was the Black Socialist Hubert Harrison). He briefly - for only two months - attended the City College of New York. Although he was an exceptional scholar, he could neither be anchored nor submit to the traditional college system of education.

In both 1928 and 1929, he spent several months in Paris with his second wife, June Edith Smith (June Miller) (his first wife was Beatrice Sylvas Wickens, whom he married in 1917). The next year he moved to Paris unaccompanied, and he continued to live there until the outbreak of World War II. He lived an impecunious lifestyle that depended on the benevolence of friends, such as Anais Nin, who became his lover and financed the first printing of Tropic of Cancer in 1934.[2]

ヘンリー・ミラー（Henry Miller, 1891年12月26日 - 1980年6月7日）は、アメリカ合衆国の小説家。

ニューヨーク州ニューヨーク市マンハッタン区にドイツ系の家で生まれる。ブルックリン区ウィリアムズバーグで育つ。ニューヨーク市立大学シティカレッジ中退。

1931年、シカゴ・トリビューンでの仕事を得る。職業を転々としたのち、ヨーロッパを放浪。1934年、自伝的小説『北回帰線』をパリにて発表。しかし本国アメリカでは、その奔放な性表現により発禁になる（1964年、連邦最高裁にて「猥褻文書ではない」とする判決が下された）。

現在ミラーの書類はカリフォルニア大学ロサンゼルス校に保存されている。晩年の妻は日本の女優のホキ・徳田。

北回帰線 (1934年/Tropic of Cancer)

南回帰線 (1939年/Tropic of Capricorn)

薔薇色の十字架1 セクサス (1949年/Sexus)

薔薇色の十字架2 プレクサス (1953年/Plexus )

愛と笑いの夜 (1955年/Nights of Love and Laughter)

薔薇色の十字架3 ネクサス (1960年/Nexus)

梯子の下の微笑 (1948年/The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder)

宇宙的な眼 (1939年/The Cosmological Eye)