Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Oral history interview with Barney Rosset, 2011.Biographical NotePublisher.
Scope and ContentsChildhood, family, and growing up experiences in Chicago; progressive education at the Parker School; enlistment and deployment to China during WWII; relationships with Nancy Ashenhurst, Joan Mitchell, Loly Eckert, and Lisa Krug; friendship with Haskell Wexler; publication of major writers such as Samuel Beckett, Henry Miller, Ernest Hemingway, William S. Bourroughs, D.H. Lawrence, Kenzaburo Oe, and Eugène Ionesco.; founding of Grove Press and the Evergreen Review; publishing world of Chicago and New York.
Subjects- Ashenhurst, Nancy.
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.
- Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997.
- Censorship--United States--History--20th century.
- Eckert, Loly.
- Evergreen review.
- Gerald Cloud, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
- Grove Press--History--20th century.
- Grove Press.
- Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.
- Interviews.
- Ionesco, Eugène.
- Krug, Lisa.
- Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930.
- Literature, Modern--20th century--Periodicals.
- Miller, Henry, 1891-1980.
- Mitchell, Joan, 1925-1992.
- Oral histories (literary works)
- Ōe, Kenzaburō, 1935-
- Publishers and publishing--Interviews.
- Publishers and publishing--United States--History--20th century.
- Rosset, Barney--Interviews.
- Wexler, Haskell.
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