Richard Grossinger Explained

Richard Grossinger (born Richard Towers) (born 1944) is an American writer 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, tai chi, craniosacral therapy, qigong, Breema, yoga, and something called "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. His son is Robin Grossinger, an author and Senior Scientist at the San Francisco Estuary Institute

Bibliography

Books written by Grossinger

Works edited by Grossinger

Select Io Journal editions

  1. 4: Alchemy Issue. 1967.
  1. 5: Doctrine of Signatures. 1968.
  1. 6: Ethnoastronomy Issue. 1969.
  1. 8: Dreams Issue on Oneirology. 1971.
  1. 9: Mars: A Science Fiction Vision. 1971.
  1. 10: Baseball Issue. 1971.
  1. 12: Earth Geography Booklet No. 1. 1972.
  1. 13: Earth Geography Booklet No. 2. 1972.
  1. 14: Earth Geography Booklet No. 3. 1973.
  1. 15: Earth Geography Booklet No. 4. 1973.
  1. 18: Early Field Notes From the All-American Revival Church. 1973.
  1. 19: Mind/Memory/Psyche. 1974.
  1. 20: Biopoesis. 1974.
  1. 21 'Vermont: Geology and Mineral Industries, Flora, Fauna & Conditions of Sky (1974)
  1. 22: An Olson-Melville Sourcebook, Vol. 1: The New Found Land/North America. 1976.
  1. 23: An Olson-Melville Sourcebook, Volume 2: The Mediterranean. 1976.
  1. 24: Baseball, I Gave You All the Best Years of My Life (1977 with Kevin Kerrane; 1992 with Lisa Conrad)
  1. 25: Ecology and Consciousness: Traditional Wisdom on the Environment. 1978.
  1. 26: Alchemy: Pre-Egyptian Legacy, Millennial Promise 1979.
  1. 31: Alchemical Tradition in the Late Twentieth Century. 1983/1991.
  1. 34: The Temple of Baseball. 1985.
  1. 37: Planetary Mysteries 1986.
  1. 46: Nuclear Strategy and the Code of the Warrior (with Lindy Hough). 1992

External links

Notes and References

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

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