6/22/2023 0 Comments Crazy Cock by Henry Miller“If I had to read stuff like that,” he said, referring to ‘Fairee Queene’ by Spenser, “I give up.” He went to work at a series of jobs he found himself unsuitable for.Īfter a waning relationship with an older woman, he married his first wife, Beatrice Sylvas Wickens, in 1917. He dropped out of City College after two months because he didn’t like the reading list they gave him. He graduated second in his class from Eastern District High School in Brooklyn. He was a great reader, reciting Old Testament stories out loud even before he stared elementary school. She beat up his sister for the “crime” of being retarded, scolded his father for being a dreamy alcoholic, and hid Henry’s typewriter in a closet to hide the embarrassment of having a writer for a son. It was his mother, Louise, who spurned the writer and the rebel in him. Henry Miller was born on Decemin the Yorkville section of Manhattan to first generation German-Americans.
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