Henry Miller

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    American author Henry Miller combined memoirs of his own personal experiences with personal philosophies and social commentaries to create controversial novels such as The Tropic of Cancer, The Tropic of Capricorn and Black Spring. Miller's frank and explicit depictions of sexual encounters led to several of his novels being banned in the United States for 30 years.FileRoom.org: Henry Miller's novels censored and banned in US due to their sexually explicitly content
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    "The bulk of my readers, I have often observed, fall into two distinct groups: in the one group those who claim to be repelled or disgusted by the liberal dosage of sex, and in the other those who are delighted to find that this element form such a large ingredient."—From The World of Sex (1965)Books and Writers: Henry Miller Biography
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