HENRY MILLER - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED 11/25/1962 - HFSID 251547

HENRY MILLER
The author pens an autograph note on the verso of a postcard about sending the check
Autograph Note Signed: "Henry Miller" on verso of postcard. Color, 6x4. Pacific Palisades, California, 1962 November 25. Accompanied by envelope addressed by Miller to: "Mr. John A. Fischback/1355 East Weldon Ave./Phoenix (14.)/Arizona". In full: "Here's a better holograph for you, my friend. You'll get the check too, Good Cheer! Ask Emil White, Big Sur, about book be published - 'H. M. Between Heaven & Hell'." American author Henry Miller (1891-1980) is best known for his controversial 1934 novel, Tropic of Cancer, which along with Tropic of Capricorn, chronicled Miller's life as an expatriate in Paris (1930-1939). First published in France, the works resulted in a 30-year censorship debate in the U.S., which Miller finally won. While in Paris, Miller, the author of more than 36 works, became involved with married author Anais Nin. Ironically, it was Nin, not Miller who documented their romance, which inspired the 1992 film, Henry and June (June Edith Smith Mansfield, a former taxi driver and the second of Miller's five wives, and also had an affair with Nin). At the time he wrote this autograph, Miller, who had helped to establish Big Sur as an artist's colony when he lived there from 1944-1963, was living in Pacific Palisades, California, where he died on June 7, 1980. Slightly worn at edges. Fine condition.