Company Name: Grove Press
Date Founded: 1951,
Founder: Barney Rosset
Headquarters Address: New York City, New York
Country of Origin: United States of America. North America.
Business Category: Book Publisher, Publishing, Multimedia & electronic book publisher
Genre: Fiction, Nonfiction, Memoir, Comics, Planner, Children’s Books
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Social Media Account Links: Facebook. Twitter. Youtube. Instagram. Linkedin.
Hours Of Operation: 8am - 5pm Pacific Time
Primary Language: English US
Email:
Phone Number: 510) 528-1444.
Address: 1700 Fourth St. Berkeley, CA 94710.
Annual Revenue: ($0-100k)
Number of Employees: {1-9}
Areas Served: United States
Products & Services: eBooks, Paperback, Publishing, Editing, Formatting, Printing
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About the Company:
About Grove Press
While Grove Press was founded on Grove Street in New York’s Greenwich Village in 1947, its true beginning came in 1951 when risk-taker Barney Rosset, Jr., purchased it and turned it into one of the most influential publishers of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.
Under Rosset’s guidance, and together with editors Fred Jordan, Richard Seaver, and others, Grove Press published many of the Beats, including William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg. Grove soon became the preeminent publisher of twentieth-century drama in America, publishing playwrights including Bertolt Brecht, Eugène Ionesco, Harold Pinter, and Tom Stoppard.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Rosset challenged United States obscenity law by publishing D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer, and William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch. His landmark court victories changed the American cultural landscape, and Grove Press went on to publish many literary erotic classics and works of groundbreaking gay fiction, including The Story of O, John Rechy’s City of Night, and the works of Jean Genet. Grove Press also developed a reputation for publishing political works, including Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and Che Guevara’s Bolivian Diary, among other titles. Grove also introduced American audiences to some of the most noteworthy international authors of the time, including Nobel Prize winners Samuel Beckett, Octavio Paz, Pablo Neruda, and Kenzaburo Oe.
In 1985, Grove Press became part of Grove Weidenfeld, which later merged with Atlantic Monthly Press to form Grove Atlantic. Since 1993, Grove Press has been both a hardcover and paperback imprint of Grove Atlantic, publishing fiction, drama, poetry, literature in translation, and general nonfiction.
Notable titles published under the Grove Press imprint include Sarah M. Broom’s The Yellow House, Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss, Richard Flanagan’s Gould’s Book of Fish, Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk, Pascal Mercier’s Night Train to Lisbon, Catherine Millet’s The Sexual Life of Catherine M., Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer, Kay Ryan’s The Best of It, Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain, and Jeanette Winterson’s Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?.
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