The Henry Miller Library is looking to beef up our “About Henry” section, and we need your help!
Below these paragraphs is a list of places, people, books, and miscellany mentioned by Miller in the abridged version of My Life and Times on our site.
We’d like to enrich these words by transforming them into hyperlinks, which would open a window of context and description with a reader’s single click. Ideally, we will associate each of the topics below with one sentence to a paragraph’s worth of explanation as to what it is and how it relates to Henry Miller.
For example, if you clicked on the phrase “Hans Reichel”, a box would pop up that says something like: “Like Henry, the German abstract painter Hans Reichel had a double affinity for painting and writing. Influenced by Klee, Kandinsky, and the poet Rilke, his work was claimed “holy” by Henry in The Cosmological Eye. In 1936, Reichel taught Henry to use watercolors for the first time.”
So, if you know anything about the topics below, or are interested in the opportunity to learn, send us your short descriptions. Again, they can be anywhere from one sentence to a paragraph. The topics in bold are ones that we think merit a hearty paragraph, but if you think there are others that also do, write ‘em up! And please be sure to cite all sources below your description.
“About Henry” Subtopics:
1. Williamsburg, Brooklyn at the turn of the century
2. CUNY
3. Emma Goldman
4. Beatrice Sylva Wickens
5. Mezzotints
6. June Smith
7. This Gentile World
8. Emil Schnellock
9. Anais Nin
10. Tropic of Cancer
11. Alfred Perles
12. Clichy
13. Black Spring
14. Villa Seurat
15. Aller Retour NY
16. Hamlet Correspondence
17. Psychoanalysis in the 1930s
18. Lawrence Durrell
19. Abe Rattner
20. TS Eliot
21. Money and How it Got That Way
22. Tropic of Capricorn
23. Hans Reichel
24. Conrad Moricand
25. George C Katsimbalis
26. Greece
27. Caresse Crosby
28. Colossus of Maroussi
29. Rosy Crucifixion
30. AC Nightmare
31. Watercolors
32. Janina M. Lepska
33. Big Sur
34. Emil White
35. Jean Page Wharton
36. Sexus
37. Partington Ridge
38. Valentine Miller
39. Bezazel Schatz
40. The Time of the Assassins
41. Plexus
42. Smile at Foot of the Ladder
43. Books In My Life
44. Eve McClure
45. Defense of Henry Miller
46. Rabelais
47. Japan
48. Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
49. Ben Grauer
50. Recordings
51. Quiet Days in Clichy
52. Olympia Press
53. Gerald Robitaille
54. To Paint is to Love Again
55. Ping pong
56. Renate Gerhardt
57. Elmer Gertz
58. Grove Press
59. Viking Press
60. Watercolors 2
61. Just Wild About Harry
62. New Directions
63. Letters to Anais Nin
64. Robert Snyder
65. Hoki Tokuda
66. UVA
67. UCLA
68. Tropic of Cancer (film)
69. Quiet Days (film)
70. Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
71. My Life and Times
We are also looking for postscripts about what happened to Henry Miller in the next ten years.
Send your suggestions and descriptions to: laura@henrymiller.org
Thanks for your help – we look forward to hearing from you!
