Tatyana Aguschewitsch was born in Ekaterinburg, Russian Empire to Jewish parents, Semion Michailovitch Auguschewitsch and Anna de Chochor.

For three years they fled the impending danger of the Nazis, resorting to crossing the Pyrenees Mountains on foot.

[1] In 1943, the Grosmans traveled to New York City, assisted by the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society.

[2] Tatyana Grosman began publishing illustrated books after her husband's heart attack, as a way to financially support them.

William Lieberman, who was a curator at the Museum of Modern Art, told them that he was only interested in original work, not reproductions.

The first collaboration that she worked on was between painter Larry Rivers and poet Frank O’Hara and it was called Stones.

[4] In 1966 Grosman hired master printmaker Donn Steward with an early grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.