Heavenly Breakfast: An Essay on the Winter of Love is a 1979 memoir by author, professor, and criticSamuel 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 theCentral Park Sheiks),[4] and Delany.[5]
The book is one of several autobiographical works by Delany.[6]