Rosset founded Grove Press, which took on American censorship laws in the '50s and '60s and championed the work of William S. Burroughs, Tom Stoppard and Malcolm X.

Nobody pigeonholes Barney Rosset—longtime owner of Grove Press, anti-censorship crusader, countercultural icon. Not Screw founder Al Goldstein, who in a 1989 interview addressed him as “the ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Despite her attorney’s contention that it was a blocked stop sign -- not her level of intoxication -- that caused a crash that killed an 8-year-old boy, Stacy Lynn Rosset ...

Ultimately, Rosset sold the theatre, sold Grove Press, and was fired from his own creation. But his legacy, both in literature and in the cinema, is profound and enduring.

Barney Rosset gave American readers their first taste of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, as well as uncensored classics by Henry Miller and D.H. Lawrence. To do that, Rosset fought literally ...

Rosset’s little empire helped establish a mass market for the publication of dramatic works, with titles by Beckett, Harold Pinter, Eugene Ionesco, Joe Orton, David Mamet and many more.