![]() ![]() My whole life has brought me to this point: my Irish family’s outrage at British brutality my years at Francis Parker, the progressive school I attended in Chicago my fervent support for the loyalists during the Spanish Civil War-all of this history is being played out right here at home in the censorship wars. As the head of Grove Press, which published Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer, the book at the heart of these lawsuits, I will wind up testifying in only two of these actions, but key to my testimony is a paper I wrote about Miller’s Cancer more than twenty years earlier in which I asserted, “writers must have a liberal society-or they are stifled.” The highest courts in four more states- Massachusetts, New York, California, and Wisconsin-will weigh in before the final showdown on the floor of the United States Supreme Court. ![]() In Illinois, a single lawyer will eventually bring sixteen separate actions together to the state supreme court. ![]() In New Jersey alone, one attorney is concurrently juggling twenty-six criminal cases as well as a federal action. Twenty-one lawyers around the country are fighting in nearly 60 separate legal actions. A battle is being waged on multiple fronts. ![]()
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