Synaesthete authors who have written controversial novels

Eleanor Dark - Australian author of Prelude to Christopher. This ALS Gold Medal winning novel was one of the first Australian novels to have a modernist style, and it tackled controversial subjects such as eugenics, sexual morality and pacifism.

Julie Myerson - English author of The Lost Child. The shit really hit the fan in March 2009 in the UK regarding this book and the ethics of writing about one's own family members.

Vladimir Nabokov - Russian-American author of Lolita, a best-selling tragicomedy novel about paedophilia that was banned in France in the 1950s.