Fred Jordan, Publisher of Taboo-Breaking Books, Dies at 95
At Grove Press, he and Barney Rosset challenged censors as they popularized D.H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and others.
Fred Jordan, standing, with Barney Rosset at the Grove Press office in 1969. Beginning as business manager, Mr. Jordan formed a long collaboration with Mr. Rosset, expanding into editing and managing the company’s defenses against censorshipCredit.Bob Adelman
May 2, 2021, 11:14 a.m. ET
Fred Jordan, the publishing partner of Barney Rosset, whose groundbreaking Grove Press and Evergreen Review fended off government censors to introduce avant-garde authors who inspired the counterculture of the 1960s, died on April 19 in Brooklyn. He was 95.
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