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Richard Grossinger | |
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| Born | 1944 (age 80–81) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, publisher |
| Spouse | Lindy Hough |
| Children | 2, including Miranda July, Robin Grossinger |
| Relatives | Jonathan Towers (brother) |
Richard Grossinger (born Richard Towers; 1944) is an American writer and founder of North Atlantic Books in Berkeley, California. [1]
Grossinger was born and raised in New York City, attended Horace Mann School, Amherst College, and the University of Michigan, earning a B.A. in English at Amherst and a Ph.D. in anthropology at Michigan. [2] With his girlfriend at Smith College (later his wife) Lindy Hough, he founded the journal Io in 1964, then founded North Atlantic Books in Vermont in 1974. [2] [3] Between 1970 and 1972 he taught anthropology at the University of Maine, Portland-Gorham, now the University of Southern Maine, and between 1972 and 1977 he taught interdisciplinary studies (including alchemy, Melville, Classical Greek, Jungian psychology, and ethnoastronomy) at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont. [2] An ethnographer and self-described psycho-spiritual explorer, as well as a writer and publisher, he has latterly studied a range of alternative medicines. [2]
As a child, a psychic told him that his biological father had actually been a member of the Grossinger family (of the Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel, where Grossinger had vacationed) and he eventually changed his last name to reflect this family connection. However, years later he learned that his biological father had been an entirely different person with no connection to the resort. [4]
His brother was Jonathan Towers, a poet who committed suicide in 2005. [5] His daughter is filmmaker, author and performance artist, Miranda July. His son is Robin Grossinger, an author and Senior Scientist at the San Francisco Estuary Institute.
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