Publisher and First Amendment crusader Barney Rosset has died. He was 89.
Kelly Bowen, a publicity manager at Algonquin Books said Wednesday that Rosset, who helped overthrow censorship laws and profoundly expanded the American reading experience, died Tuesday night in New York.
As the head of Grove Press and the magazine Evergreen Review, Rosset published works by Samuel Beckett, Malcolm X, Che Guevara, Jean-Paul Sartre, Allen Ginsberg, Henry Miller, D.H. Lawrence and William Burroughs.
