Charles Rembar (March 12, 1915[1] – October 24, 2000)[2] was an American attorney best known as a First Amendment rights lawyer.
He worked for several New Deal agencies after graduating from law school and then served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II, after which he moved back to the New York area, living in Scarsdale and working in Manhattan.
Rembar founded the law firm of Rembar & Curtis, which represented writers such as Louise Erdrich, Tom Clancy, Herman Wouk, and Norman Mailer, both as lawyers and often as literary agents.
[1][2] In 1959, Grove Press published an unexpurgated version of Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H.
[3] Subsequently, he defended Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer and John Cleland's Fanny Hill – the latter argued before the U.S. Supreme Court – which played a major role in changing the nation's approach to obscenity.