chez Fred Kann
The artist Frederick Kann was one of Miller’s closest friends and benefactors during his early years in Paris. In the fall of 1930, Miller spent several weeks living with Kann in his apartment on the rue Froidevaux overlooking the Montparnasse cemetery.
Jean Kronski Mysteries: Strange Names
The true identity of Jean Kronski has long remained a mystery. In Henry Miller’s published writing she appears variously as the character named Anastasia, Vanya, or Thelma. It is only in Miller’s letters and notes the she carries the name “Jean Kronski” and this is assumed to be the name she used in real life…
New Henry Miller Journal Released
A new issue of Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal has just been released! Volume 7 brings another great roundup of research into Miller and his writing. You can order a copy today from the Nexus website—now at a special low price.
The Spring and Fall of Eve Adams
A new play on the life of Eve Adams and her Greenwich Village tearoom is set to hit the stage in April. June Miller, who worked around the corner from the tearoom at The Pepper Pot will be a character in the play, which foreshadows Eve’s later friendship with Henry Miller in Paris.
Rare Manuscripts Auction
PBA Galleries of San Francisco has announced a major auction of Henry Miller manuscripts and rare documents from the library of Roger Wagner, to be held on March 18, 2010. The stars of the show are Miller’s Paris Notebooks, which are expected to fetch between $100,000 and $150,000.
London Transfer
On a snowy day in February 1930, Henry Miller boarded a ship in the New York Harbor and set sail for London—the first stop on a journey that eventually led him to a new life in Paris where he began writing the novels that made him famous.
