Martin Greif

Martin Joel Greif (February 4, 1938, The Bronx, New York City - November 17, 1996, Cork, Ireland) was an American editor, lecturer, publisher and writer.

Both men had enjoyed successful publishing careers in Manhattan but wanted to move to the country for the wide, open spaces and the lower costs.

For all its supposed frivolity, it was an important work at a time when the gay community was growing in confidence and visibility and was about to be struck unawares by the AIDS epidemic.

Greif and Grow also wrote a few books using different, sometimes female, nom de plumes - Jean Bach, Frederick S. Copely, Martin Lawrence and Leona Wesley Hunter.

[6] Martin Greif and Larry Grow spent their latter years in the vicinity of Ballinadee, County Cork, Ireland, where they set up Orchard Hill Press in a deal with Sterling Publishing of NYC.

Martin Greif's popular book, "The Gay Book of Days" (1982)
"Celtic Tales of Terror" (1997), one of several Irish-themed works for Sterling Publishing (written as Mairtin O'Griofa ), that came out after Greif's death