On the Road is known as a semi-autobiographic story, and Kerouac admitted himself being Sal Paradise, when journalists asked him if he was Dean Moriarty, who was actually inspired by another Beat hero and a close friend of Kerouac, Neal Cassady.

Valentin Katayev and Lev Kassil wrote semi-autobiographic books about children's life in Tsarist Russia.

In 1887 he brought out a volume " of extraordinary merit, which has not received the attention it deserves ", Propos d ' exil, a series of short studies of exotic places, in his characteristic semi-autobiographic style.

Ramsay's life ( wounded war veteran, lifelong bachelor schoolmaster ) was wholly unlike Davies ' ( never in the army, married with a family, a newspaper editor and author ) yet some readers thought Fifth Business semi-autobiographic.

Neither Mantle nor Maris need fear being classified an intellectual, but lately Mantle has shown unusual devotion to an intellectual opus, Henry Miller's `` Tropic of Cancer ''.

Whale also directed this version, which premiered at Henry Miller's Theatre on 22 March 1929.

The fellow whose nickname made up the title was played by Tom Ewell, and the female lead, Susan Oliver, won the Theatre World Award for her performance, while the Irwin Shaw adaptation opened at Henry Miller's Theatre on 28 October 1958 and closed on November 1.

In celebration of his 80th birthday, the Henry Miller's Theatre was renamed the Stephen Sondheim Theatre on September 15, 2010, and the The BBC Proms staged a concert in his honor.

A Broadway theatre at West 43rd Street in New York City, The Henry Miller's Theatre, was renamed The Stephen Sondheim Theatre on September 15, 2010, in honor of his 80th birthday.

Henry Miller's 1934 novel, Tropic of Cancer, had explicit sexual passages and could not be published in the United States ; an edition was printed by the Obelisk Press in Paris and copies were smuggled into the United States.

During a break in filming in 1990, Binoche spent five days shooting Mara for Mike Figgis, based on Henry Miller's Quiet Days in Clichy.

Its New York City debut was on February 4, 1938 at Henry Miller's Theatre, and later moved to the Morosco Theatre.

The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin holds a selection of Miller's watercolors, as did the Henry Miller Museum of Art in Ōmachi City in Nagano, Japan, before closing in 2001.

Miller's friend Emil White founded the nonprofit Henry Miller Memorial Library in Big Sur in 1981.

** Above two volumes republished, minus two letters, as Henry Miller's Hamlet Letters, Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1988.

* Henry Miller's Book of Friends: A Tribute to Friends of Long Ago, Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1976.

In addition, there is a film by Snyder that was completed after Snyder's death in 2004 about Miller's watercolor paintings, Henry Miller: To Paint Is To Love Again ( 60 mimutes ).

Doing It With the Cosmos: Henry Miller's Big Sur Struggle for Love Beyond Sex, Philadelphia: Xlibris, 2001.

Many other novels of vagabond life were consciously written as picaresque novels, such as Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer ( 1934 )..

Other major screen roles include the obsessed Nazi Colonel in The Train ( 1964 ), Strether in a 1977 TV adaptation of Henry James's novel The Ambassadors, Tobias in A Delicate Balance ( 1973 ), Professor Moroi in the film of János Nyíri's If Winter Comes ( 1980 ), for BBC Television, Mark Van Doren in Robert Redford's film Quiz Show ( 1994 ), and Thomas Danforth in Nicholas Hytner's film adaptation ( 1996 ) of Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

Among the books that the band has cited as being stylistically influential include William H. Gass's In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, and Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry.

Born Yesterday opened on February 4, 1946 on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatreand ran there until November 6, 1948 ; the play transferred to Henry Miller's Theatre on November 9, 1948 and closed on December 31, 1949, after a total of 1642 performances.

The writer Michael Levenson remarked upon the influence at this period in Orwell's life, of Henry Miller, and Miller's attitude to what was happening in the world.

* The Hollow Crown, Henry Miller's Theatre ( New York debut ), January 1963

Also Post-Depression works, such as Henry Miller's " Tropic of Cancer " ( 1934 ) and " Black Spring " ( 1936 ), followed by works from the 1950s, such as Samuel Beckett's trilogy, may have influenced the use of stream of consciousness in later works in the 20th century ( Molloy, 1951, ( Malone Meurt ( 1951 ); Malone Dies, ( translated by Beckett, 1958 ); and L ' Innomable, 1953 ( The Unnamable, 1960 ).

Following her high school graduation in 1938, she went to New York, changed her name to " Teresa Wright ", and was hired as understudy to Dorothy McGuire and Martha Scott for the role of Emily in Thornton Wilder's stage production of Our Town at Henry Miller's Theatre.

* In May, Grove Press publishes Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer in the United States 27 years after its original publication in France.

* Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer is allowed to circulate legally in the United States by the U. S. Supreme Court three decades after its original publication in France.

* Tropic of Capricorn ( novel ), by Henry Miller

* Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer ( 1934 )

* Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn ( 1939 )

Horn's decision established the precedent that paved the way for the publication of such hitherto banned books as D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer.

20th century erotic fiction includes such classics of the genre as: Suburban Souls ( 1901 ), published by Carrington and possibly written by him also ; The Confessions of Nemesis Hunt ( issued in three volumes 1902, 1903, 1906 ), probably by George Reginald Bacchus, printed by Duringe of Paris for Leonard Smithers in London ; Josephine Mutzenbacher ( 1906 ) by Felix Salten ; Sadopaideia ( 1907 ) by Anon ( possibly Algernon Charles Swinburne ); Les Mémoires d ' un jeune Don Juan ( 1907 ) and the somewhat disturbing Les onze mille verges ( 1907 ) by Guillaume Apollinaire ; The Way of a Man with a Maid ( 1908 ) and A Weekend Visit by Anon ; Pleasure Bound Afloat ( 1908 ), Pleasure Bound Ashore ( 1909 ) and Maudie ( 1909 ) by Anon ( probably George Reginald Bacchus ); Manuel de civilité pour les petites filles à l ' usage des maisons d ' éducation ( 1917 ) and Trois filles de leur mère ( 1926 ) by Pierre Louys ; Story of the Eye ( 1928 ) by Georges Bataille ; Tropic of Cancer ( 1934 ) and Tropic of Capricorn ( 1938 ) by Henry Miller ; The Story of O ( 1954 ) by Pauline Réage ; Helen and Desire ( 1954 ) and Thongs ( 1955 ) by Alexander Trocchi ; Ada, or Ardor ( 1969 ) by Vladimir Nabokov ; Journal ( 1966 ), Delta of Venus ( 1978 ) and Little Birds ( 1979 ) by Anaïs Nin and The Bicycle Rider ( 1985 ) by Guy Davenport.

In 1960, publisher Grove Press won the Supreme Court case contesting the ban, but even in 1961 booksellers all over the country were sued for selling Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer.

* Henry Miller mentions Dreamland in his novel, Tropic of Capricorn: I was walking again in Dreamland and a man was walking above me on a tightrope and above him a man was sitting in an airplane spelling letters of smoke in the sky.

Tropic of Cancer is a novel by Henry Miller which has been described as " notorious for its candid sexuality " and as responsible for the " free speech that we now take for granted in literature.

* Lawrence Durrell's 1938 novel The Black Book was described as " celebrat the Henry Miller of Tropic of Cancer as his literary father.

* In the 1994 play Pterodactyls by Nicky Silver, the novel is mentioned by the character Emma: " She reads poems by Emily Bronté and I read chapters from the The Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller.

* Frontman Henry Rollins of the hardcore punk band Black Flag was heavily affected by the book as well and frequently made references to it in his songs, often taking lyrics directly from Tropic of Cancer.

In this portfolio he gained national attention by largely abolishing the censorship of printed material, unbanning many novels, including Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, as well as allowing the sale of Playboy magazine.

Tropic of Capricorn is a semi-autobiographical novel by Henry Miller, first published in Paris in 1938.

France has also been more permissive in terms of censorship, and many important foreign language novels were originally published in France while being banned in America: Joyce's Ulysses ( published by Sylvia Beach in Paris, 1922 ), Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch ( both published by Olympia Press ), and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer ( published by Obelisk Press ).

The band's name is taken from a character in Henry Miller's novel Tropic of Cancer.

* The spoken text at the start of " Protest Song ' 68 " comes from the opening of the Henry Miller novel Tropic of Cancer.