The Abcs from Grossman's Glossary of Every Humorous Word in the English Language

Richard Grossman was born in Lubbock, Texas in 1943. He attended Stanford University graduating with a degree in English literature. Grossman's first book of poetry, Tycoon Boy, was published in 1977 and was followed by The Animals in 1983 and reissued in 1990 and 2011. For the past two decades Grossman has been concentrating on a trilogy entitled show more American Letters. Its first two volumes, The Alphabet Man, describing hell, and The Book of Lazarus, describing purgatory, were published in 1993 and 1997 respectively. The trilogy's final installment, Breeze Avenue, a work on heaven, is scheduled for publication in late 2013. (Bowker Author Biography) show less