ABSTRACT
As a denizen of New York City during the first decades of the twentieth century, Henry Miller participated in numerous avant-garde groups devoted to art and religion. Public lectures and publications gave the Brooklynite a window into a realm dominated by the cultural elite of Greenwich Village. Arriving in Paris around the age of40, he gained entrance into the post-Lost Generation intellectual world, finding himself surrounded by writers, painters, and other artists who shared his spiritual interests.
