Barney Rosset
Barney Rosset · Arts & Literature
Bought Grove Press in 1951 and broke American censorship with it — Tropic of Cancer, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Naked Lunch — while publishing Beckett, Genet and Malcolm X.
28 May 1922, Chicago, Illinois, USA — 21 February 2012, New York City, USA
Chicago and New York, USA
Barney Rosset is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Bought Grove Press in 1951 and broke American censorship with it — Tropic of Cancer, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Naked Lunch — while publishing Beckett, Genet and Malcolm X.
Barnet Lee Rosset Jr. was born in Chicago to a Jewish father, also named Barney, who owned a bank, and an Irish Catholic mother, Mary Tansey — so he comes into this directory by descent, and the card says so plainly. In 1951 he bought Grove Press, a two-year-old imprint with three titles, and spent thirty years using it to break American censorship: Lady Chatterley's Lover in 1959, Tropic of Cancer in 1961, Naked Lunch in 1962, each fought through the courts.
He was the first American publisher of Beckett, Genet, Ionesco and Pinter, and published The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Grove was the press that made the 1960s legible.
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Bought Grove Press in 1951 and broke American censorship with it — Tropic of Cancer, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Naked Lunch — while publishing Beckett, Genet and Malcolm X.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Rosset
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