Author. Henry Miller was a prolific 20th century American author. His novels were partly autobiographical with frankness, especially about sexual relationships. Born the son of German immigrants who settled in New York, he spent his childhood in Brooklyn where he graduated high school. He would eventually go to City College, but would not feel comfortable with the structure there. He would leave after a couple of months and take a variety of jobs. Miller was first given the bug to write by his boss at Western Union who suggested that someone should write a book about messengers. Miller tried his hand, but felt that it would not be successful as he did not feel as though he knew anything about writing. He would later get the opportunity to learn about writing when his second wife, June Smith Mansfield, supported him, and he studied his craft. For years, events concerning June's life would appear in his writings. Eventually, the couple were able to save money to travel to Europe where Miller really came into his own. Miller would spend years in France living the life of an expatriate. His life there would become the basis for his most famous books, "The Tropic of Cancer" and "The Tropic of Capricorn". "The Tropic of Cancer" was banned as obscene in the United States and Britain for thirty years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. The books would establish him has a voice to be reckoned with all. While in France, Miller began a long-term relationship with the author Anais Nin. Their relationship would inspire the motion picture "Henry and June." Prior to World War II, Miller spent time in Greece, where he wrote what many believe to be his finest work, "The Colossus of Maroussi". He would return to the United States after six months in Greece, eventually settling into an artistic life at Big Surf in California. At Big Sur, Miller produced his "Rosy Crucifixion" trilogy. In the end he would produce about 36 works, with some being his own and analysis of others. His artist lifestyle eventually led to him gaining so much public recognition that he would spend the last twenty years of his life as his health failed finding privacy in Europe and Southern California. Besides being an avid pianist, cyclist, and walker, he was also a watercolorist and exhibited internationally and wrote in 1960 about art in "To Paint Is To Love Again". Despite his ill health, Miller remained a strong and vibrant personality to the end. He married and divorced five times: His first wife was Beatrice Sylvas Wickens of Brooklyn, a pianist, and the couple had a daughter. June was his second wife. In 1944 he married his third wife Janina Martha Lepska, a Polish philosophy student, who was 30 years his junior. The couple had a son and a daughter. His fourth wife was Eve McClure. At the age of 75, his fifth wife was Hoki Tokuda, a Japanese actress.