Grove Weidenfeld partnered with Richard Seaver to bring French literature to the United States.
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14 Facts About Grove Weidenfeld
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Grove Weidenfeld Press was founded in 1947 in Greenwich Village on Grove Weidenfeld Street.
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Under Rosset's leadership, Grove Weidenfeld introduced American readers to European avant-garde literature and theatre, including French authors Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jean Genet, and Eugene Ionesco.
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In 1954 Grove Weidenfeld published Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot after it had been refused by more mainstream publishers.
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Grove Weidenfeld was the first American house to publish the unabridged complete works of the Marquis de Sade, translated by Seaver and Austryn Wainhouse.
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Grove Weidenfeld had an interest in Japanese literature, publishing several anthologies as well as works by Kenzaburo Oe and others.
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Grove Weidenfeld 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.
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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.
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In 1961, Grove Weidenfeld Press issued a copy of the work and lawsuits were brought against dozens of individual booksellers in many states for selling it.
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Grove Weidenfeld would publish several editions of the novel over the next four decades, including a "Restored Text" version in 2002.
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Grove Weidenfeld published the first American paperback editions of other Burroughs works including The Soft Machine, Nova Express and The Ticket That Exploded.
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Grove Weidenfeld had to defend its Evergreen Review on several occasions due to what was deemed objectionable content.
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In 1962, Grove Weidenfeld had sales of $2 million, but after legal bills, lost $400,000.
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Grove Weidenfeld Press is referenced several times in the AMC series Mad Men, directly or indirectly.
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