Frederick Turner is the author or editor of a dozen books, including Into the Heart of Life: Henry Miller at One Hundred. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
“An entertaining and skillful evocation of the time when Miller’s
memoir of bottom-feeding American expats in Paris was known as the
dirtiest book in the world.”—Lee Sandlin, Wall Street Journal
*Wall Street Journal*
“Turner tells a good story: how Miller’s Tropic of Cancer came to
be written, came to be banned and came to be an American
classic.”—New York Times Book Review, front cover, Editor’s
Choice
*New York Times Book Review*
“Tropic of Cancer was indeed groundbreaking, and as Turner
demonstrates so well, the novel stirred such controversy . . . that
it helped pave the way for the liberation of American letters.”—Ron
Antonucci, Booklist
*Booklist*
"Turner's Renegade: Henry Miller and the Making of Tropic of Cancer
may, in fact, be the best one-volume introduction to a writer about
whom shelves full of books have already been
written."—Alan Bisbort, The Sunday Republican
*The Sunday Republican*
“In Renegade, scholar Frederick Turner reassesses [Tropic of
Cancer], making the case that the book and its author are as
quintessentially American as Walt Whitman and Mark Twain. . . .
Turner’s story traces Miller’s mid-twentieth-century ramble back
through the dark passages of US history.”—Sheila Heti,
Bookforum
*Bookforum*
"Turner's writing stunningly fans the flames of Miller's own path
toward an art which transformed flagrant philandering, maudlin
suffering, deep humiliation and loneliness into a career dominated
by the single-minded pursuit of spiritual truth. . . . In Turner's
skilful hands Miller's story comes blazingly alive."—Gaylord Dold,
Wichita Eagle
*Wichita Eagle*
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