My Sundays with Henry Miller

by Jeanne Rejaunier

Overview

For several years in the sixties, Jeanne Rejaunier often shared Sundays with iconic author Henry Miller at the homes of their mutual friends, as well as at Henry's home in Pacific Palisades. In the course of these gatherings, Miller reflects on literature, film, art, music, and metaphysics, astrology, theosophy, reincarnation, life after death, life on other planets, sexuality, obscenity, women, Anaïs Nin, forgotten writers of the past, and much, much more.

Miller and Rejaunier soon discover they have much in common, both being Francophiles, both trained musicians, and both having mentally challenged siblings, Henry a sister, Jeanne a brother. Henry’s relationship with his “boon companion,” Joe Grey, one of the three best friends Henry made in America, runs throughout the book, as Henry also interacts with friends to whom Jeanne introduces him, including a former card carrying Communist dancer/ choreographer, an exotic Portuguese psychic, and a young actress who falls passionately in love with Henry and dies under mysterious circumstances.

Woven into the book is Rejaunier’s relationship with Anaïs Nin; her Miller-related experiences while living in Italy; and amusing childhood encounters with Miller’s writing. Encouraging Jeanne in her transition from model and Hollywood actress to bestselling novelist, Miller helps launch Jeanne’s million copy bestseller The Beauty Trap.

In My Sundays with Henry Miller, Jeanne Rejaunier chronicles a new side to literary immortal Henry Miller that has never previously been revealed.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940045233415
Publisher:	Jeanne Rejaunier
Publication date:	08/20/2013
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	556 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Jeanne Rejaunier graduated from Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, and did postgraduate studies at the Sorbonne, Paris, the Universities of Florence and Pisa, Italy, and the Goetheschule, Rome, as well as at UCLA. While at Vassar, she began a career as a professional model, and subsequently became an actress in Manhattan, Hollywood and Europe, appearing on and off Broadway, in films and television, on magazine covers internationally and as a principal in dozens of national commercials.

Rejaunier achieved international success with the publication of her acclaimed first novel, The Beauty Trap, which sold over one million copies and became Simon & Schuster’s fourth best seller of the year, the film rights to which were purchased outright by Avco-Embassy. Rejaunier has publicized her books in national and international tours on three continents in five languages. Her writing has been extolled in feature stories in LIFE, Playboy, Mademoiselle, Seventeen, National Geographic, BusinessWeek, Fashion Weekly, Women’s Wear, W, McCalls, American Homemaker, Parade, Let’s Live, Marie-Claire, Epoca, Tempo, Sogno, Cine-Tipo, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and countless other publications. In addition to The Beauty Trap, Rejaunier also published six other novels: Spies 'R Us, The Motion and the Act, Affair in Rome, Mob Sisters, Odalisque at the Spa, and Everybody's Husband; and nonfiction memoirs My Sundays with Henry Miller and Hollywood Sauna Confidential. Rejaunier's Planes of Heaven spiritual series include seven titles: Planes of the Heavenworld, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Heaven but Didn't Know Where to Ask, The Kingdom of Heaven and 4th Dimensional Consciousness, The Afterlife in the Here and Now, Living in Eternity Now, The Eightfold Path and the 8th Plane of Heaven, and Here and Hereafter, Forever After. She is also the author of Astrology For Lovers, Modeling From the Ground Up, the Fifty Best Careers in Modeling, Titans of the Muses, The Paris Diet, Runway to Success, The Video Jungle, Astrology and Your Sex Life, Japan’s Hidden Face, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Food Allergy, and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Migraines and Other Headaches.

As a filmmaker, Rejaunier directed, produced, filmed and edited the 4 hour documentary, The Spirit of ’56: Meetings with Remarkable Women. Some 200 of her videos are now posted on YouTube:at http://www.youtube.com/my_videos?feature=mhw4; additional writing is available on her blog, www.jarcollect.blogspot.com).