'American literature today begins and ends with the meaning of what Miller has done.' - Lawrence Durrell 'I like Henry Miller. I think he's the greatest American writer' - Bob Dylan 'There is nothing like Henry Miller when he gets rolling... One has to take the English language back to Marlowe and Shakespeare before encountering a wealth of imagery equal in intensity... a wildwater of prose, a cataract, a volcano, a torrent, an earthquake... a writer finally like a great athlete, a phenomenon of an avatar of literary energy.' - Norman Mailer 'The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past." - George Orwell

Banned for much of the author's lifetime, and notorious afterwards, the works of Henry Miller (1891 - 1980) have left an indelible mark on subsequent American authors such as Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs.