A 1949 novel by this man landed Maurice Girodias in trouble and was the first in a series of works whose plot leads up to his divorce from his wife June.
This man was the subject of praise in George Orwell's 1940 essay Inside the Whale, in which Orwell also praised this man's Black Spring. A 1949 novel by this man landed Maurice Girodias in trouble and was the first in a series of works whose plot leads up to his divorce from his wife June. In one of his novels, he appears as a narrator who acquires a job with the Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company, while a more famous novel begins with the lines, "We live at the Villa Borghese and we are all dead." Inspired by his travels in the United States in the early 1940s to write The Air Conditioned Nightmare, for ten points, identify this author of the Rosy Crucifixion trilogy as well as Tropic of Capricorn and Tropic of Cancer.
This man was the subject of praise in George Orwell's 1940 essay Inside the Whale, in which Orwell also praised this man's Black Spring.
Henry Miller