Creator/Grove Press

Richard Seaver

Richard Seaver has 2 credited comics indexed across 2 series, working as writer.

Richard Seaver graduated from the University of North Carolina. He was a Fulbright scholar in Paris, studying at the Sorbonne in the early 1950s, when he and several other scholars founded a literary quarterly, Merlin. In 1959, Seaver went to work for Grove Press, where he eventually rose to the position of editor in chief. He translated more than 50 books from the French, including works by de Sade, Marguerite Duras and André Breton. He left Grove in 1971 and established his own imprint at Viking.