Henry Miller
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Terry Southern
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Samuel Beckett
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Vladimir Nabokov
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When J.P. Donleavy finally placed ''The Ginger Man'' with Maurice Girodias's Olympia Press in 1955, he found himself in good
company. That same year Girodias published another scandalous book, ''Lolita,'' by Vladimir Nabokov. Olympia also published
Henry Miller's ''Plexus'' in 1953, Samuel Beckett's ''Molloy'' (in English translation) in 1955, William S. Burroughs's ''Naked Lunch''
in 1959, and Terry Southern's ''Candy'' in 1960, among others. Because of the effect such books had on censorship laws, The
Washington Post called Girodias, in 1979, ''the man who made the world safe for pornography.''
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