Barney Rosset, Grove Press publisher.
Rosset brought the court cases that allowed “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”, “Tropic of Cancer”, and “Naked Lunch” to be published in the United States. He was also behind the distribution of “I Am Curious (Yellow)
” (yet another court case) and “Titicut Follies” (yet another court case, and the most horrifying movie I’ve ever seen).
Joe Bob Briggs’s write-up of “I Am Curious (Yellow)” in Profoundly Erotic: Sexy Movies that Changed History
goes into more detail about Grove Press and some of the colorful incidents in Rosset’s history (the Cuban exile bombing, the unionization attempt, etc.)
And:
Mr. Rosset turned down J. R. R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings,” saying he “couldn’t understand a word”
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