Judith Grossman

Judith Grossman is an American writer. She earned a scholarship to Oxford, from which she received a First Class degree in English in 1958. She received a Ph.D. from Brandeis University, in 1968.^[1] She taught at Bennington College.^[2] She also taught in the Creative Writing MFA programs at U. C. Irvine (1992–95) and the University of Iowa (1997). She was chairman of the liberal arts division at Mount Ida College in Newton, Mass.^[3]

She was married to the poet Allen Grossman until his death in 2014. Her children are Lev Grossman, Austin Grossman, and Bathsheba Grossman.

Works

• Judith Grossman (1988). Her Own Terms. Soho Press Inc. ISBN 978-1-56947-289-7.
• Judith Grossman (August 20, 1999). How Aliens Think: Stories. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-6171-0.

Poetry

• Judith Grossman. "Golden Child". poetry.com.

Criticism

• Judith Grossman (February 18, 1991). "Mother Chose the Wrong Life". The Gaddis Anthology.

Reviews

Publisher's Weekly (October 1999) said that Grossman, despite reservations, Grossman in Her Own Terms achieved a balance of deadpan wit and understated emotion. Grossman depicts a generation of transatlantic post-war English drifters in the early '60s.

References

1. Distinguished Alumni, Brandeis University
2. Our past associate and core faculty, Bennington College
3. REFUSING TO BE A PUSSYCAT, SUE MILLER, The New York Times, January 24, 1988