Richard Grossinger
Richard Grossinger is an American writer, anthropologist, and founder of North Atlantic Books in Berkeley, California.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. With his wife Lindy Hough, he founded the journal Io in 1964, then founded North Atlantic Books in Vermont in 1974. 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 at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont. 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 something called "psychic healing".
His brother was Jonathan Towers, a poet who committed suicide in 2005. His daughter is filmmaker, author and performance artist Miranda July.Books written by Grossinger
- Solar Journal Black Sparrow Press
- Spaces Wild & Tame Mudra
- The Book of the Earth and Sky Black Sparrow Press
- Mars: A Science Fiction Vision Io Books
- Two Essays Black Sparrow Press
- The Continents Black Sparrow Press
- The Book of Being Born Again into the World North Atlantic Books
- Book of the Cranberry Islands Black Sparrow Press
- The Windy Passage from Nostalgia North Atlantic Books
- The Long Body of the Dream North Atlantic Books
- Martian Homecoming at the All-American Revival Church North Atlantic Books
- The Slag of Creation North Atlantic Books
- The Provinces North Atlantic books
- Unfinished Business of Doctor Hermes North Atlantic Books
- Planet Medicine: From Stone-Age Shamanism to Post-Industrial Healing North Atlantic Books
- The Night Sky: The Science and Anthropology of the Stars and Planets North Atlantic Books
- Nuclear Strategy and the Code of the Warrior North Atlantic Books
- Embryogenesis: Species, Gender and Identity North Atlantic Books
- Waiting for the Martian Express: Cosmic Visitors, Earth Warriors, Luminous Dreams North Atlantic Books
- Homeopathy: An Introduction for Skeptics and Beginners North Atlantic Books
- Planet Medicine: Modalities North Atlantic books
- New Moon Frog Ltd
- Out of Babylon: Ghosts of Grossinger's Frog Ltd
- Homeopathy: The Great Riddle North Atlantic Books
- Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings: How the Universe Makes Life North Atlantic Books
- On the Integration of Nature: Post 9-11 Biopolitical Notes North Atlantic Books
- Migraine Auras: When the Visual World Fails North Atlantic Books
- The New York Mets: Myth, Ethnography, Subtext Frog Ltd
- The Bardo of Waking Life North Atlantic Books
- 2013: Raising the Earth to the Next Vibration North Atlantic Books 9781556438783
Works edited by Grossinger
- The Alchemical Tradition in the Late Twentieth Century
- Baseball Diamonds: Tales, Traces, Visions & Voodoo from a Native American Rite
- Planetary Mysteries: Megaliths, Glaciers, The Face on Mars, and Aboriginal Dreams
- The Dreamlife of Johnny Baseball
- Into the Temple of Baseball
Select Io Journal editions
- #4: Alchemy Issue. 1967.
- #5: Doctrine of Signatures. 1968.
- #6: Ethnoastronomy Issue. 1969.
- #8: Dreams Issue on Oneirology. 1971.
- #9: Mars: A Science Fiction Vision. 1971.
- #10: Baseball Issue. 1971.
- #12: Earth Geography Booklet No. 1. 1972.
- #13: Earth Geography Booklet No. 2. 1972.
- #14: Earth Geography Booklet No. 3. 1973.
- #15: Earth Geography Booklet No. 4. 1973.
- #18: Early Field Notes From the All-American Revival Church. 1973.
- #19: Mind/Memory/Psyche. 1974.
- #20: Biopoesis. 1974.
- #21 'Vermont: Geology and Mineral Industries, Flora, Fauna & Conditions of Sky
- #22: An Olson-Melville Sourcebook, Vol. 1: The New Found Land/North America. 1976.
- #23: An Olson-Melville Sourcebook, Volume 2: The Mediterranean. 1976.
- #24: Baseball, I Gave You All the Best Years of My Life
- #25: Ecology and Consciousness: Traditional Wisdom on the Environment. 1978.
- #26: Alchemy: Pre-Egyptian Legacy, Millennial Promise 1979.
- #31: Alchemical Tradition in the Late Twentieth Century. 1983/1991.
- #34: The Temple of Baseball. 1985.
- #37: Planetary Mysteries 1986.
- #46: Nuclear Strategy and the Code of the Warrior. 1992
