Henry Valentine Miller (Eng. Henry Miller; December 26, 1891, Brooklyn, New York, USA — June 6, 1980) was an American writer and artist. His life became the basis for his own scandalous, for that time, intellectually erotic novels about the world after World War I—and about the writer’s fate in that world.
What is the book about? About many things. But above all—about something elusive, like music. Perhaps about the great secret of being and the innermost silence of the soul, where, amid inevitable troubles, the joy of life becomes clear.