1891 - 1980
Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American novelist. He broke with existing literary forms and developed a new type of semi-autobiographical novel that blended character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, stream of consciousness, explicit language, sex, surrealist free association, and mysticism. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, Tropic of Capricorn, and the trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, which are based on his experiences in New York and Paris (all of which were banned in the United States until 1961). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Miller has received more than 2,466,907 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Henry Miller is the 259th most popular writer (down from 238th in 2019), the 231st most popular biography from United States (down from 186th in 2019) and the 24th most popular American Writer.
Henry Miller is most famous for his novels Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn.
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Among writers, Henry Miller ranks 259 out of 5,794. Before him are Chinghiz Aitmatov, John Keats, Germaine de Staël, Frédéric Mistral, Robert Burns, and Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau. After him are Tomas Tranströmer, Ali-Shir Nava'i, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Jaroslav Hašek, Taras Shevchenko, and Marcus Terentius Varro.
1928 - 2008
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 253
1795 - 1821
HPI: 77.77
Rank: 254
1766 - 1817
HPI: 77.73
Rank: 255
1830 - 1914
HPI: 77.71
Rank: 256
1759 - 1796
HPI: 77.70
Rank: 257
1749 - 1791
HPI: 77.70
Rank: 258
1891 - 1980
HPI: 77.63
Rank: 259
1931 - 2015
HPI: 77.61
Rank: 260
1441 - 1501
HPI: 77.61
Rank: 261
1846 - 1916
HPI: 77.61
Rank: 262
1883 - 1923
HPI: 77.60
Rank: 263
1814 - 1861
HPI: 77.58
Rank: 264
116 BC - 27 BC
HPI: 77.57
Rank: 265
Among people born in 1891, Henry Miller ranks 10. Before him are Antonio Gramsci, Mikhail Bulgakov, Max Ernst, Walter Model, Edith Stein, and James Chadwick. After him are Pär Lagerkvist, Otto Dix, B. R. Ambedkar, Rudolf Carnap, Nelly Sachs, and Helmuth Weidling. Among people deceased in 1980, Henry Miller ranks 15. Before him are Jesse Owens, Steve McQueen, Roland Barthes, Bon Scott, Oskar Kokoschka, and Marshall McLuhan. After him are Colonel Sanders, Tamara de Lempicka, Romain Gary, Joe Dassin, Oswald Mosley, and Vladimir Vysotsky.
1891 - 1937
HPI: 82.11
Rank: 4
1891 - 1940
HPI: 80.45
Rank: 5
1891 - 1976
HPI: 79.48
Rank: 6
1891 - 1945
HPI: 78.85
Rank: 7
1891 - 1942
HPI: 78.31
Rank: 8
1891 - 1974
HPI: 78.31
Rank: 9
1891 - 1980
HPI: 77.63
Rank: 10
1891 - 1974
HPI: 76.55
Rank: 11
1891 - 1969
HPI: 76.41
Rank: 12
1891 - 1956
HPI: 76.34
Rank: 13
1891 - 1970
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 14
1891 - 1970
HPI: 75.48
Rank: 15
1891 - 1955
HPI: 75.24
Rank: 16
1913 - 1980
HPI: 81.42
Rank: 9
1930 - 1980
HPI: 80.49
Rank: 10
1915 - 1980
HPI: 80.06
Rank: 11
1946 - 1980
HPI: 77.94
Rank: 12
1886 - 1980
HPI: 77.93
Rank: 13
1911 - 1980
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 14
1891 - 1980
HPI: 77.63
Rank: 15
1890 - 1980
HPI: 77.11
Rank: 16
1898 - 1980
HPI: 76.91
Rank: 17
1914 - 1980
HPI: 76.82
Rank: 18
1938 - 1980
HPI: 75.92
Rank: 19
1896 - 1980
HPI: 75.70
Rank: 20
1938 - 1980
HPI: 75.66
Rank: 21
Among people born in United States, Henry Miller ranks 231 out of 15,968. Before him are Robert Duvall (1931), James Monroe (1758), Barry White (1944), Robert Andrews Millikan (1868), Sigourney Weaver (1949), and Benjamin Harrison (1833). After him are Tommy Lee Jones (1946), Andrew Jackson (1767), Robert K. Merton (1910), Robert Fulton (1765), William James Sidis (1898), and Mario Puzo (1920).
1931 - Present
HPI: 77.77
Rank: 225
1758 - 1831
HPI: 77.77
Rank: 226
1944 - 2003
HPI: 77.76
Rank: 227
1868 - 1953
HPI: 77.75
Rank: 228
1949 - Present
HPI: 77.68
Rank: 229
1833 - 1901
HPI: 77.66
Rank: 230
1891 - 1980
HPI: 77.63
Rank: 231
1946 - Present
HPI: 77.62
Rank: 232
1767 - 1845
HPI: 77.62
Rank: 233
1910 - 2003
HPI: 77.60
Rank: 234
1765 - 1815
HPI: 77.57
Rank: 235
1898 - 1944
HPI: 77.55
Rank: 236
1920 - 1999
HPI: 77.54
Rank: 237
Among writers born in United States, Henry Miller ranks 24. Before him are Pearl S. Buck (1892), Dr. Seuss (1904), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803), Walt Whitman (1819), Emily Dickinson (1830), and Philip K. Dick (1928). After him are Mario Puzo (1920), O. Henry (1862), Arthur Miller (1915), Jack Kerouac (1922), Ezra Pound (1885), and Truman Capote (1924).
1892 - 1973
HPI: 79.07
Rank: 18
1904 - 1991
HPI: 79.07
Rank: 19
1803 - 1882
HPI: 78.85
Rank: 20
1819 - 1892
HPI: 78.58
Rank: 21
1830 - 1886
HPI: 78.29
Rank: 22
1928 - 1982
HPI: 78.02
Rank: 23
1891 - 1980
HPI: 77.63
Rank: 24
1920 - 1999
HPI: 77.54
Rank: 25
1862 - 1910
HPI: 77.19
Rank: 26
1915 - 2005
HPI: 77.18
Rank: 27
1922 - 1969
HPI: 77.07
Rank: 28
1885 - 1972
HPI: 76.79
Rank: 29
1924 - 1984
HPI: 76.50
Rank: 30