December 26, 1891 - June 7, 1980
American writer and artist
Author of "Tropic of Cancer", Tropic of Capricorn" and "The Rosy Crucifixion"
Many of his works were banned in the U.S. for obscenity and led to a ruling by the United States Supreme Court (Grove Press, Inc., V. Gerstein) that declared his "Tropic of Cancer" a work of literature in 1964