14 Facts About Grove Press

Grove Press is an American publishing imprint that was founded in 1947.

Grove Press partnered with Richard Seaver to bring French literature to the United States.

Grove Press was founded in 1947 in Greenwich Village on Grove Street.

Under Rosset's leadership, Grove Press introduced American readers to European avant-garde literature and theatre, including French authors Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jean Genet, and Eugene Ionesco.

In 1954 Grove Press published Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot after it had been refused by more mainstream publishers.

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Grove Press was the first American house to publish the unabridged complete works of the Marquis de Sade, translated by Seaver and Austryn Wainhouse.

Grove Press had an interest in Japanese literature, publishing several anthologies as well as works by Kenzaburo Oe and others.

Grove Press published most of the American Beats of the 1950s as well as poets like Frank O'Hara of the New York School and poets associated with Black Mountain and the San Francisco Renaissance such as Robert Duncan.

From 1957 to 1973 Grove published Evergreen Review, a literary magazine whose contributors included Edward Albee, Bertolt Brecht, William S Burroughs, Albert Camus, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Nat Hentoff, LeRoi Jones, John Lahr, and Timothy Leary.

In 1961, Grove Press issued a copy of the work and lawsuits were brought against dozens of individual booksellers in many states for selling it.

Grove Press would publish several editions of the novel over the next four decades, including a "Restored Text" version in 2002.

Grove Press had to defend its Evergreen Review on several occasions due to what was deemed objectionable content.

In 1962, Grove Press had sales of $2 million, but after legal bills, lost $400,000.

Grove Press is referenced several times in the AMC series Mad Men, directly or indirectly.