Editing Henry Miller (section)

===Paris, 1930–1939===
[[File:P1110205 Paris XIV villa Seurat rwk.JPG|thumb|Villa Seurat in Paris, where Henry Miller lived]]

In 1928, Miller spent several months in Paris with June, a trip which was financed by Freedman.<ref name="rferguson1"/> One day on a Paris street, Miller met another author, [[Robert W. Service]], who recalled the story in his autobiography: "Soon we got into conversation which turned to books. For a stripling he spoke with some authority, turning into ridicule the pretentious scribes of the Latin Quarter and their freak magazine."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://robertwservice.blogspot.com/2015/05/henry-miller-1891-1980.html|title=Henry Miller (1891–1980)|website=robertwservice.blogspot.com|access-date=March 15, 2018}}</ref> In 1930, Miller moved to Paris unaccompanied.<ref name="canderson">{{Cite web |url=http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/henry-miller-born-to-be-wild/ |title=Henry Miller: Born to be Wild |last=Anderson |first=Christiann |date=March 2004 |website=BonjourParis |access-date=September 30, 2011}}</ref> Soon after, he began work on ''[[Tropic of Cancer (novel)|Tropic of Cancer]]'', writing to a friend, "I start tomorrow on the Paris book: First person, uncensored, formless – fuck everything!"<ref>Alexander Nazaryan, [http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/05/henry-miller-brooklyn-hater.html "Henry Miller, Brooklyn Hater,"] ''[[The New Yorker]]'', May 10, 2013.</ref> Although Miller had little or no money the first year in Paris, things began to change after meeting [[Anaïs Nin]] who, with [[Hugh Parker Guiler|Hugh Guiler]], went on to pay his entire way through the 1930s including the rent for an apartment at 18 Villa Seurat. Nin became his lover and financed the first printing of ''Tropic of Cancer'' in 1934 with money from [[Otto Rank]].<ref>Dearborn, ''The Happiest Man Alive'', p. 171.</ref> She would write extensively in her journals about her relationship with Miller and his wife June; the first volume, covering the years 1931–34, was published in 1966.<ref name="canderson" /> Late in 1934, June divorced Miller by proxy in Mexico City.<ref>Dearborn, ''The Happiest Man Alive'', p. 174.</ref>

In 1931, Miller was employed by the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' Paris edition as a [[proofreading|proofreader]], thanks to his friend [[Alfred Perles|Alfred Perlès]], who worked there. Miller took this opportunity to submit some of his own articles under Perlès' name, since at that time only the editorial staff were permitted to publish in the paper. This period in Paris was highly creative for Miller, and during this time he also established a significant and influential network of authors circulating around the Villa Seurat.<ref>Gifford, James. Ed. '' The Henry Miller-Herbert Read Letters: 1935–58''. Ann Arbor: Roger Jackson Inc., 2007.</ref> At that time a young British author, [[Lawrence Durrell]], became a lifelong friend. Miller's correspondence with Durrell was later published in two books.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Lawrence Durrell & Henry Miller: A Private Correspondence |publisher=Dutton |year=1963 |editor-last=Wickes |editor-first=George |location=New York |oclc=188175}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=The Durrell-Miller Letters 1935–80 |publisher=Faber |year=1988 |isbn=0-571-15036-5 |editor-last=MacNiven |editor-first=Ian S |location=London}}</ref> During his Paris period he was also influenced by the French [[Surrealism|Surrealists]].

His works contain detailed accounts of sexual experiences. His first published book, ''[[Tropic of Cancer (novel)|Tropic of Cancer]]'' (1934), was published by [[Obelisk Press]] in Paris and banned in the United States on the grounds of obscenity.<ref name="Baron">{{Cite web |url=http://illinois.edu/db/view/25/12046 |title=Celebrate Banned Books Week: Read Now, Before It's Too Late |last=Baron |first=Dennis |date=October 1, 2009 |website=Web of Language |publisher=University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |access-date=September 30, 2011 |archive-date=May 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200511232805/https://illinois.edu/db/view/25/12046 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The dust jacket came wrapped with a warning: "Not to be imported into the United States or Great Britain."<ref name="ahoyle051414">Arthur Hoyle, [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arthur-hoyle/remember-henry-miller_b_5320782.html "Remember Henry Miller? Censored Then, Forgotten Now,"] ''[[Huffington Post]]'', May 14, 2014.</ref> He continued to write novels that were banned; along with ''Tropic of Cancer'', his ''[[Black Spring (novel)|Black Spring]]'' (1936) and ''[[Tropic of Capricorn (novel)|Tropic of Capricorn]]'' (1939) were smuggled into his native country, building Miller an underground reputation. While the aforementioned novels remained banned in the US for over two decades, in 1939, [[New Directions Publishing|New Directions]] published ''The Cosmological Eye'', Miller's first book to be published in America. The collection contained short prose pieces, most of which originally appeared in ''Black Spring'' and ''Max and the White Phagocytes'' (1938).<ref>Arthur Hoyle, ''The Unknown Henry Miller: A Seeker in Big Sur'', New York: [[Arcade Publishing]], 2014, pp. 23, 38–39.</ref>

Miller became fluent in French during his ten-year stay in Paris and lived in France until June 1939.<ref name="hieronymus">Henry Miller, ''Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch'', New York: [[New Directions Publishing|New Directions]], 1957, pp. 1–2.</ref> During the late 1930s he also learned about German-born sailor [[George Dibbern]], helped to promote his memoire ''Quest'' and organized charity to help him.