Grossman, Richard

Richard Grossman was born in Lubbock, Texas in 1943. The son of a Chevrolet dealer, he was raised in Minneapolis and then attended Stanford University, from which he graduated with a degree in English literature. After a time spent living overseas in France, Israel and Morocco, he returned to Minneapolis in 1967 where he worked as a high-level executive at Gelco, a multinational financial services company. Grossman left the corporate world in 1976 in order to dedicate his time to writing. His first book of poetry, Tycoon Boy, was published by kayak in 1977 and was followed by The Animals, whic...