![]() ![]() There, she encouraged him to begin writing, and he threw himself whole-heartedly into a life of bohemian squalor. He supported himself through a string of odd-jobs until his second wife took him to Paris. ![]() By way of example, at one point he had an affair with his first wife’s mother. As an adult, he had – shall we say – a complicated romantic life. Miller grew up in the States, born in 1891 to German-speaking parents and only learning to speak English fluently during his school years. See, Tropic of Cancer, much like The Sun Also Rises, and On The Road, is what we call a roman-à-clef (which is a fancy way of saying that Miller wrote a diary and just changed a few names before he published it). To understand Tropic Of Cancer, you really need to understand the life and times of Henry Miller. (If you want to support this site, make a purchase through an affiliate link on this page – at no cost to you!) ![]()
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