Maurice Girodias
Maurice Girodias (12 April 1919 – 3 July 1990) was a French publisher who founded the Olympia Press, specialising in risqué books, censored in Britain and America, that were permitted in France in English-language versions only. It evolved from his father’s Obelisk Press, famous for publishing Henry Miller’s ''Tropic of Cancer''. Girodias published Vladimir Nabokov's ''Lolita'', J. P. Donleavy’s ''The Ginger Man'' (involving a 20-year lawsuit), and works by Samuel Beckett, William S. Burroughs, John Glassco and Christopher Logue.
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