Friday, February 24, 2012

In Memoriam: Barney Rosset, Grove Press Publisher (Breningstall.com)

In Memoriam: Barney Rosset, Grove Press Publisher (Breningstall.com): Barney Rosset, one of the most important publishers in American history, passed away Tuesday. Rosset bought Grove Press in 1951 for $3,000 and managed it for 35 years, steering the publishing house through some of the nation's key literary publications and legal trials, including Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tropic of Cancer and Naked Lunch.

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