Editing Henry Miller (section)

==US publication of previously banned works==
The publication of Miller's ''[[Tropic of Cancer (novel)|Tropic of Cancer]]'' in the United States in 1961 by [[Grove Press]] led to a series of obscenity trials that tested American laws on pornography. The [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]], in ''Grove Press, Inc., v. Gerstein'', citing ''[[Jacobellis v. Ohio]]'' (which was decided the same day in 1964), overruled the state court findings of [[obscenity]] and declared the book a work of literature. This was one of the signature events of the [[sexual revolution]]. [[Elmer Gertz]], the lawyer who successfully argued the initial case for the novel's publication in [[Illinois]], became Miller's lifelong friend; a volume of their correspondence has been published.<ref>{{cite book |editor1= Gertz, Elmer |editor2=Felice Flanery Lewis | title = Henry Miller: Years of Trial & Triumph, 1962–1964: The Correspondence of Henry Miller and Elmer Gertz | publisher = Southern Illinois University Press | location = Carbondale | year = 1978 | isbn = 0-8093-0860-6 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/henrymilleryears0000mill }}</ref> Following the trial, in 1964–65, Miller's other books, which had also been banned in the US, were published by [[Grove Press]]: ''[[Black Spring (novel)|Black Spring]]'', ''[[Tropic of Capricorn (novel)|Tropic of Capricorn]]'', ''[[Quiet Days in Clichy (novel)|Quiet Days in Clichy]]'', ''[[Sexus (The Rosy Crucifixion)|Sexus]]'', ''Plexus'' and ''Nexus''.<ref>Henry Miller, Preface to ''[[Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch]]'', New York: [[New Directions Publishing|New Directions]], 1957, p. ix.</ref> Excerpts from some of these banned books, including ''Tropic of Cancer'', ''Black Spring'' and ''Sexus'', were first published in the US by [[New Directions Publishing|New Directions]] in ''The Henry Miller Reader'' in 1959.<ref>Harry T. Moore, [https://www.nytimes.com/1959/12/20/archives/hardboiled-eloquence-the-henry-miller-reader-edited-with-an.html "Hard-Boiled Eloquence,"] ''New York Times'', December 20, 1959.</ref><ref>Henry Miller, "Author's Preface," ''The Henry Miller Reader'', New York: New Directions, 1959, p. xv.</ref>