Disturbing the older Miller at work, as a young writer starting out, Miller later wrote, in the Preface to his book “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”: “My warmest thanks go to Charles Haldeman, who came all the way from Winter Park, Florida, to put Wilhelm Fränger's book on Hieronymus Bosch in my hands.
May he forgive me for being such a poor host that day!” Peter Levi, the English poet and travel writer, in an interview in 1979 for the Paris Review (Fall 1979, No.
3-4, 1985) remembering their time together on the seafront in Hania: There was one café on the empty quay, it could consume poetry in handfuls never distracted from the stone quayside.
In the morning wrote letters for the whores to their true loves serving in Sicily, with eyes of blue, far clearer than the sea.
[4] At the time of his death, he and director Christopher Miles were attempting to sell the rights to a film play, The Cretan Runner, based on George Psychoundakis' memoir of the same name.
Its protagonist, Stefan Brückmann, is a half-German, half-Gypsy boy survives Auschwitz and attends the University of Heidelberg as a young man.
His second novel, The Snowman (1965), described the odd history and relationship of the inhabitants of a fictional small upstate New York town, Joseph's Landing, in the later part of World War Two.
Robert Nye wrote of it in a review for The Guardian, "No American novelist since Faulkner strikes me as having a finer awareness of the possibilities of language as an index to the complications of human behaviour.
Levi, who died in February 2000, a friend of Haldeman's from their days in Athens together, wrote: "The vivid lightning that flashed here and there in his mind was something he could never put to sleep."