The 100 Greatest Brooklynites of All Time: 20 to 11
Though born in Manhattan’s Yorkville, Miller lived in Williamsburg, on Driggs, for nine years as a child before going on to become one of the country’s most obscene writers (even though he was one of those Paris expats). Tropic of Cancer was famously banned when it was published in 1934; three decades later, the Supreme Court would declare it not obscene, a major moment in American censorship history.