Fred Jordan

Fred Jordan (born Alfred Rotblatt; November 9, 1925 – April 19, 2021) was the business manager of the publishing house Grove Press and business manager and editor of the magazine Evergreen Review. He managed Grove's legal battles to publish uncensored versions of D. H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, Henry Miller's novel Tropic of Cancer, William S. Burroughs' novel Naked Lunch, and the Swedish film I Am Curious (Yellow).

Early life Alfred Rotblatt (known as Fred) was born on November 9, 1925, in Vienna, Austria. His father was Herman Rotblatt, a Polish Jew, and his mother Fanny ( Steckel) was a Viennese whose parents were Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire. He left in 1979 to become president and publisher of the American division of Methuen Publishing.

In the early 1980s, Grove Press was in deep financial straits. Jordan returned to the publishing house to try to save it, but it was sold in 1985.

Personal life and death Fred Jordan married Helen Manson in 1951, and the couple had two children.

Jordan died on April 19, 2021, in a hospice in Brooklyn, New York.