In the spring of 1927, Miller was living in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights with his second wife June Miller and her lesbian lover, Jean Kronski. He had recently obtained a new job working for the Parks Department. One day, he returned home to find a note saying they had taken a boat to Paris. Soon after, Miller moved back in with his parents in Brooklyn. One night in May 1927, Miller stayed at the Parks Department office after work and typed up a 32-page document he called "June", outlining the details of their relationship. He would use the document as source material for "Tropic of Capricorn" as well as "The Rosy Crucifixion" trilogy. Miller would also repurpose numerous scenes into "Tropic of Capricorn" from his unpublished third novel "Lucky Lesbians" (later retitled "Crazy Cock"), which he worked on from 1928 to 1930 and which was ultimately published in 1991 (over a decade after his death).