Lolita publisher Maurice Girodias died 7/3/90. The French Jew was most famous for publishing Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita."

He spent most of his life fighting censors, like his father, the American publisher Jack Kahane who caused a national furor by releasing Henry Miller's sexually explicit "Tropic of Cancer" in the 1930s.

Girodias died at age 71, shortly after having a heartattack during an interview with a French Jewish radio station. The interview was to be broadcast with the publication of his memoirs.

After fled to exile in the United States from 1964-74 after battles with French censors. Authors he published in both French and English included Samuel Beckett, Chester Himes, Iris Owens, William Burroughs, J. P. Donleavy, Nikos Kazantzakis, Nina Berberova, the Marquis de Sade, Georges Bataille, Jean Genet and Raymond Queneau.

Girodias published Miller's later works, "Tropic of Capricorn" and "Sexus." Girodias published the first volume of his autobiography, titled "The Frog Prince," in 1980.