Heavenly Breakfast
Cover of first edition paperback
AuthorSamuel R. Delany
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreNon-fiction
Publication date
1979
Media typePrint (Paperback)

Heavenly Breakfast: An Essay on the Winter of Love is a 1979 memoir by author, professor, and critic Samuel R. Delany.[1] It details the time he spent living in a commune in New York City during the winter of 1967–1968,[2] although altering some details.[3]

Heavenly Breakfast was also the name of the rock band that lived in the commune, which consisted of Steve Wiseman, Susan Schweers, Bert Lee (later of the Central Park Sheiks),[4] and Delany.[5]

The book is one of several autobiographical works by Delany.[6]

References

  1. ^ Andrews, William L.; Foster, Frances Smith; Harris, Trudier (2001-02-15). The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature. Oxford University Press. p. 104. ISBN 9780198031758.
  2. ^ "The doomfiles - SAMUEL.html". Obsidianrook.com. Retrieved 2011-04-02.
  3. ^ Nelson, Emmanuel Sampath (2002). African American Autobiographers: A Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 85–86. ISBN 9780313314094.
  4. ^ "Central Park Sheiks in Greenwich Village on May 15, 1974 : Monte Barry : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive". Retrieved 2011-04-02.
  5. ^ "Samuel R. Delany by K. Leslie Steiner". Pseudopodium.org. Retrieved 2011-04-02.
  6. ^ Delany, Samuel R. (2009). Conversations with Samuel R. Delany - Google Books. ISBN 9781604732788. Retrieved 2011-04-02.
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