Life With Henry Miller
In 1923 at Wilson's, she met Henry Miller when she was 21 and he was 31. Henry Miller left his first wife to marry June in Hoboken, New Jersey on June 24, 1924.
In October 1926, Jean Kronski, an artist and poet, moved in with them at June's urging. June, who was bisexual, cultivated a very close relationship with Jean, often preferring Jean's affections to Henry's. This phase of her relationship with Jean is the central piece of Henry's autobiographical novel Crazy Cock.
This living arrangement soon fell apart and Jean and June left for Paris together in April 1927. However, two months later they started to quarrel, and June returned to Henry in July. June and Henry subsequently left for a tour of Europe, settling in Paris.
In 1931, June met writer Anaïs Nin, who quickly became obsessed with her and, just as Henry Miller did, used her as a biographical archetype in many of her subsequent writings. June and Nin became involved in a flirtatious and perhaps sexual relationship, and June would figure prominently into her published and unpublished diaries, upon which the movie Henry & June was based. She was portrayed by Uma Thurman.
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