Barney Rosset (b. 1922) is the publisher of Grove Press and the Evergreen Review. In 1951, he acquired the then fledgling Grove Press, under which he published acclaimed authors such as Samuel Beckett, Kenzaburo Oe, Tom Stoppard, Che Guevara, and Malcolm X. Rosset also published and distribute controversial works such as Allen Ginsberg's Howl, the Swedish film I Am Curious (Yellow), and the provocative Evergreen Review. He battled the US government in the highest courts to overrule the obscenity ban on groundbreaking works of fiction such as Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tropic of Cancer and Naked Lunch.