Baron Roy Andries de Groot (February 21, 1910 – September 16, 1983),[1] was a British-born American culinary writer and wine critic.
When World War II broke out, he joined the British Ministry of Information and worked for the BBC, where, during The Blitz of London, he suffered eye injuries that would leave him totally blind within 20 years.
In 1948, he married the British actress Katherine Hynes and they lived in a house on Bleecker Street in New York's Greenwich Village with his seeing-eye dog companion, Atena.
He later moved with his wife, Kathryn, and his seeing-eye dog companion, Nusta, to the Westbeth Artists' Colony in Greenwich Village.
De Groot died in New York City of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, reportedly as a result of depression caused by his failing health.