Richard Seaver, the groundbreaking supporter of such great writers as D.
H. Lawrence, Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett and Jean Genet, has died on January 7, 2009 at his home in Manhattan.
He was 82.
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, which published, in English, early works by Eugène Ionesco and Jean Genet.
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