Richard Grossinger

Richard Grossinger (born Richard Towers) (born 1944) is an American writer, anthropologist, and founder of North Atlantic Books in Berkeley, California.[1]

Biography

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 wife (then girlfriend at Smith College) Lindy Hough, he founded the journal Io in 1964, then founded North Atlantic Books in Vermont in 1974.[2] 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 psychospiritual explorer as well as a writer and publisher, he has studied or trained in homeopathic medicine, somatic theory, t'ai chi ch'uan, craniosacral therapy, qigong, Breema, yoga, and psychic healing.[2]

His brother was Jonathan Towers, a poet who committed suicide in 2005.[3] His daughter is filmmaker, author and performance artist Miranda July.

Books written by Grossinger

Works edited by Grossinger

Select Io Journal editions

References

  1. ↑ Zank, Darin (2004) "Publisher defends farting dog book", Coulee News, January 28, 2004, retrieved 2011-07-31
  2. 1 2 3 4 : http://www.richardgrossinger.com/richard-grossinger-biography
  3. ↑ : http://www.richardgrossinger.com/2010/03/my-teachers/


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