He was a great American publisher. Barney Rosset published to his passions, took chances on writers when no one else would, fought for his books--sometimes all the way to the Supreme Court--and was never motivated primarily by money. The extraordinary list of books he and his colleagues at Grove Press published from 1951 to 1986 profoundly changed our culture. Lady Chatterley's Lover, Naked Lunch and Tropic of Cancer helped overturn censorship laws. Beckett, Borges, Bulgakov, Neruda, Oe, Pinter and Stoppard broadened our minds. The Beats--Burroughs, Kerouac, Ginsberg and others--galvanized a generation. And there were books that questioned conventional ideas of gender,...
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