Barney Rosset, 89, Publisher And Anti-Censorship Hero
"[He] was most identified with his work at Grove Press, the New York-based book publisher he bought in the early 1950s. For the next several decades, he ... used his company to distribute critically acclaimed but sexually explicit books by D.H. Lawrence, Henry Miller and William S. Burroughs and engaged in a series of groundbreaking legal battles that changed the way the government interpreted the First Amendment." The Washington Post 02/22/12

Posted February 23, 2012 12:05 AM