This writer was put in New gate prison in London for debt in 1749. While in jail, a publisher named Drybutter offered him twenty guineas for writing a licentious novel.

He produced Fanny Hill or “The Memoirs of a woman of pleasure” in 1750. This book is an erotic novel. It is considered as the First original English pornography and the first pornography to use the form of the novel.

One of the most prosecuted and banned books in history,it has become a synonym for obscenity.

As sure as the fact SEX always sells, the money he earned through this novel was enough to secure his release.