Henry Miller
Henry Miller was born on December 26, 1891 to German American parents. His father Heinrich worked as a tailor, and his sister Lauretta Anna was intellectually disabled. They were a working-class family, and Miller described his childhood in some of his writing as being very much “of the streets.”
That said, he was a voracious reader and excelled in school, shining as a pupil from an early age. He enrolled in City College of New York, but left after only two months. After college, he drifted...
