Heavenly Breakfast
{{Short description|1979 memoir by Samuel R. Delany}}
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| author = Samuel R. Delany
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| country = United States
| language = English
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| genre = Non-fiction
| release_date = 1979
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| media_type = Print (Paperback)
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Heavenly Breakfast: An Essay on the Winter of Love is a 1979 memoir by author, professor, and critic Samuel R. Delany.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-9XtCY7cijMC&q=heavenly+breakfast&pg=PA104|title=The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature|last1=Andrews|first1=William L.|last2=Foster|first2=Frances Smith|last3=Harris|first3=Trudier|date=2001-02-15|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780198031758|pages=104|language=en}} It details the time he spent living in a commune in New York City during the winter of 1967–1968,{{cite web |url=http://www.obsidianrook.com/doomfiles/DELANY.html |title=The doomfiles - SAMUEL.html |publisher=Obsidianrook.com |access-date=2011-04-02 |archive-date=2011-07-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714224107/http://www.obsidianrook.com/doomfiles/DELANY.html |url-status=dead }} although altering some details.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vrk2z0XqY_8C&q=heavenly+breakfast+delaney&pg=PA86|title=African American Autobiographers: A Sourcebook|last=Nelson|first=Emmanuel Sampath|date=2002|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=9780313314094|pages=85–86|language=en}}
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),{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/cps74-05-xx-AUD.fob |title=Central Park Sheiks in Greenwich Village on May 15, 1974 : Monte Barry : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive |access-date=2011-04-02}} and Delany.{{cite web |url=http://www.pseudopodium.org/repress/KLeslieSteiner-SamuelRDelany.html |title=Samuel R. Delany by K. Leslie Steiner |publisher=Pseudopodium.org |access-date=2011-04-02 |archive-date=2021-03-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210301093606/http://www.pseudopodium.org/repress/KLeslieSteiner-SamuelRDelany.html |url-status=live }}
The book is one of several autobiographical works by Delany.{{cite book|last1=Delany|first1=Samuel R.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rU3xGSOsCv4C&pg=PA74|title=Conversations with Samuel R. Delany - Google Books|year=2009|isbn=9781604732788|access-date=2011-04-02}}