Judith Grossman is an American writer. She earned a scholarship to

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, from which she received a First Class degree in English in 1958. She received a Ph.D. from

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, in 1968. She has taught at Bennington College. She also taught in the Creative Writing MFA programs at

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from 1992 to 1995 and the

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(1997). She was chairman of the liberal arts division at Mount Ida College in

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.''REFUSING TO BE A PUSSYCAT'', SUE MILLER, The New York Times, January 24, 1988
/ref> She was raised

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

Works

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Poetry

Criticism

Reviews

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

References

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