American author Henry Miller (1891 – 1980) was a major force in literature in the late 1950s, largely because his two most important novels, Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, were banned from publication and sale in the United States for many years for its sexual content. Tropic of Cancer was a loosely constructed autobiographical novel describing his struggles during his first years in Paris. His work’s freedom of language and subject helped lead the way for Beat Generation writers such as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.
