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Judith Grossman is an American writer. She earned a scholarship to Somerville College, Oxford, 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
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. 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
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in
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.''REFUSING TO BE A PUSSYCAT'', SUE MILLER, The New York Times, January 24, 1988
/ref> She was raised Anglican. She was married to the poet Allen Grossman until his death in 2014. Her children are
Lev Grossman Lev Grossman (born June 26, 1969) is an American novelist and journalist who wrote ''The Magicians Trilogy'': '' The Magicians'' (2009), ''The Magician King'' (2011), and ''The Magician's Land'' (2014). He was the book critic and lead technology ...
,
Austin Grossman Austin Seth Grossman (born June 26, 1969) is an American author and video game designer. He has contributed to '' The New York Times'' and has written for a number of video games, most notably '' Deus Ex'' and '' Dishonored''. Life Grossman w ...
, and
Bathsheba Grossman Bathsheba Grossman (born 1966) is an American artist who creates sculptures using computer-aided design and three-dimensional modeling, with metal printing technology to produce sculpture in bronze and stainless steel. Her bronze sculptures a ...
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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.


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