She earned a scholarship to Somerville College, Oxford, from which she received a First Class degree in English in 1958.
She was chairman of the liberal arts division at Mount Ida College in Newton, Massachusetts.
[4] She was married to the poet Allen Grossman until his death in 2014.
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.