1922-2012
A champion of first amendment rights in regards to literature, Rosset became known as a fairly hated man due to his printing of books some believed to be morally irresponsible. Many of those books went on to become absolute classics in the canon of American literature.
A tiny list of just a few of the books he was responsible for putting out since 1951:
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence (unedited)
Howl by Allen Ginsberg (in the second issue of The Evergreen Review)
The Bolivian Diary by Che Guevara (excerpts also in The Evergreen Review)
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