Richard Grossman (publisher)
Richard Grossman (June 26, 1921 – January 27, 2014[1]) was an American publisher. Born in Chicago, he worked in the Army Signal Corps and advertising before going into the publishing business.[1] He started his own company, Grossman Publishers, after working for Simon & Schuster. Grossman Publishers was sold to Viking Press in 1968.[1] Later he worked in alternative medicine and psychotherapy,[2] including as director of the Center for Health in Medicine at the Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center; at Beth Israel Medical Center, and the Smith Center for Healing and the Arts’s program for cancer patients.[3]
Publisher of Ralph Nader's best-seller Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-in Dangers of the American Automobile,[1] Grossman went on to publish other books by Mr. Nader and his associates on air and water pollution, food and drugs, pesticides and coal-mine safety, all of which helped lead to the passage of major legislation.[1]
Selected books
- Choosing and Changing: A Guide to Self-Reliance (1978)
- The Other Medicines (1985)
- A Year With Emerson: A Daybook (2003)
- The Tao of Emerson (2007) by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lao Tse (Authors), Richard Grossman (Editor, Introduction), Modern Library, ISBN 0679643397.
References
- Richard Grossman, Crusading Publisher of 1960s, Dies at 92 By Douglas Martin, Feb. 1, 2014, New York Times
- In Memoriam: Richard Grossman, Psychosynthesis Quarterly: The Digital Magazine of the Association for the Advancement of Psychosynthesis, Volume 3 Number 2, September 2014 by Richard Schaub
- Richard L. Grossman, 92; publisher of Ralph Nader’s ‘Unsafe at Any Speed’ By Adam Bernstein, Washington Post, January 30, 2014