Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.
“There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.”
“I was just so lucky with 'Real Women Have Curves.' At that point, I would have done an insurance commercial. I would have done anything.”