Martin Greif
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Martin Joel Greif was an American editor, lecturer, publisher and writer. He was the uncle of heavy metal music personality and lawyer Eric Greif. Background Son of an immigrant Harlem grocery store owner, Martin Greif graduated from Stuyvesant High School and was further educated at Hunter College, NYC, graduating in 1959 and Princeton University, graduating in 1961 , where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and groomed as an expert in Daniel Defoe. After graduation he became a professor of English and taught in NY universities from 1963 to 1973, including lecturing in biblical literature at New York University, before entering the world of publishing as managing editor of Time-Life Books , and then as co-founder and editorial director of Main Street Press. Main Street Press was founded in 1978 by Greif and his life partner, Lawrence Grow, in Clinton, New Jersey. Their first office was on Main Street in Clinton, hence the name. Both men had enjoyed successful publishing careers in Manhattan but wanted to move to the country for the wide, open spaces and the lower costs. Subsequently, the business moved to nearby Pittstown, New Jersey. Main Street specialized in publishing books on Americana, crafts and restoration. However, their biggest publishing success was the Vogue magazine spoof Dogue , featuring modeling canines and billed as "a parody of the world's most famous fashion magazine".
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