In 1935, Lawrence Durrell, a young Englishman living on Corfu, wrote enthusiastically to a middle aged Brooklynite - Henry Miller - of his just published novel ... » 

In 1935, Lawrence Durrell, a young Englishman living on Corfu, wrote enthusiastically to a middle aged Brooklynite - Henry Miller - of his just published novel Tropic of Cancer. Miller felt that he had found his ideal reader and responded, thus beginning a correspondence that lasted 45 years. «