Forty years after publication in Paris by the Olympia Press in its pornographic Traveller’s Companion Series The Ginger Man has achieved the status of a world classic. Royalties flow in from various sources: theatrical rights, motion picture rights, foreign language editions (published in fifteen countries), and from its continued success as a bestseller with more than five million copies sold throughout the world. A celebrated restaurant in New York City was called The Ginger Man. In 1965 The Complete and Unexpurgated Edition of The Ginger Man launched the distinguished literary imprint of Seymour Lawrence. The Ginger Man has never been out of print.