Publication Order of The Rosy Crucifixion Books
| Sexus | 1949 |
| Plexus | 1953 |
| Nexus | 1960 |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Tropic of Cancer | 1934 |
| Tropic of Capricorn | 1939 |
| Opus Pistorum / Under the Roofs of Paris | 1983 |
| Crazy Cock | 1991 |
| Moloch: or, This Gentile World | 1992 |
| Paris 1928 (Nexus II) | 2012 |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder | 1948 |
| A Devil in Paradise | 1956 |
| Quiet Days in Clichy | 1956 |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Black Spring | 1936 |
| Max and the White Phagocytes | 1938 |
| The Cosmological Eye | 1939 |
| The Wisdom of the Heart | 1941 |
| Sunday After the War | 1944 |
| Nights of Love and Laughter | 1955 |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Aller Retour New York | 1935 |
| The World of Sex | 1940 |
| The Colossus of Maroussi | 1941 |
| The Air-Conditioned Nightmare | 1945 |
| Remember to Remember | 1947 |
| The Books in My Life | 1952 |
| The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud | 1956 |
| Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch | 1957 |
| Stand Still Like the Hummingbird | 1962 |
| Henry Miller on Writing | 1964 |
| Insomnia or the Devil at Large | 1970 |
| My Life and Times | 1971 |
| Henry Miller’s Book of Friends | 1976 |
| Sextet | 1977 |
| My Bike and Other Friends | 1978 |
| Joey | 1979 |
| The World of Lawrence: A Passionate Appreciation | 1980 |
About Henry Miller
Henry Miller (born 1891, died 1980) was an American novelist and essayist whose semi-autobiographical books, among them “Tropic of Cancer”, “Tropic of Capricorn” and the trilogy “The Rosy Crucifixion”, were banned in the United States until 1961. Their eventual American publication led to obscenity trials that changed the law on what could be printed.
Miller was born in the Yorkville section of Manhattan on 26 December 1891, the son of a tailor, and grew up in Brooklyn. He attended the City College of New York for one semester and worked for Western Union from 1920 to 1924 as personnel manager in the messenger department. He left that job in 1924, the year he married his second wife, June, to write full time. Two novels from the late 1920s, “Moloch” and “Crazy Cock”, stayed unpublished until after his death.
In 1930 he moved alone to Paris, where he had little money until he met Anaïs Nin, who supported him through the decade and financed the first printing of “Tropic of Cancer” by the Obelisk Press in 1934. “Black Spring” (1936) and “Tropic of Capricorn” (1939) followed from the same publisher, and copies smuggled into America gave him an underground reputation. A visit to Lawrence Durrell in Greece in 1939 produced the travel book “The Colossus of Maroussi” (1941), which Miller considered his best.
He returned to New York in 1940, and a year-long journey around the country became “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare” (1945). He moved to California in 1942 and settled in Big Sur in 1944, the setting of “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch” (1957). He had begun “Sexus” in 1942, and with “Plexus” and “Nexus” it forms “The Rosy Crucifixion”, a trilogy completed in 1959 that gives a fictionalised account of his Brooklyn years with June and his struggle to become a writer.
Grove Press published “Tropic of Cancer” in the United States in 1961, and in 1964 the Supreme Court overruled state findings that the book was obscene. Film versions of “Tropic of Cancer” and “Quiet Days in Clichy” appeared in 1970. Miller also painted an estimated 2,000 watercolours. He spent his last seventeen years in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, where he died on 7 June 1980 aged 88.