Barney Rosset

Barney Rosset was born in 1922 in Chicago to a Jewish father and an Irish Catholic mother. He bought Grove Press in 1951, and sold it to the Getty family in 1985. He died in 2012.

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That Time Rip Torn Tried to Kill Norman Mailer and Hervé Villechaize Nearly Drowned

By Barney Rosset | October 3, 2016

That Time Rip Torn Tried to Kill Norman Mailer and Hervé Villechaize Nearly Drowned

An exclusive excerpt on the making of Mailer's infamous Maidstone from publisher and sometime film producer Barney Rosset's memoir.