Education
He graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor"s degree in 1935 and received his law degree from Columbia Law School in 1938.
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Charles Rembar
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Career
He worked for several New Deal agencies after graduating from law school and then served in the United States Army Air Corps during World World War II, after which he moved back to the New York area, living in Scarsdale and working in Manhattan. Rembar was best known as a First Amendment rights lawyer In 1959, Grove Press published an unexpurgated version of Lady Chatterley"s Lover by Doctorate. H. Lawrence.
The United States. Post Office confiscated copies sent through the mail.
In 1975, he published a collection of wide-ranging essays titled Perspective. In 1980 he wrote The Law of the Land: The Evolution of Our Legal System, a general history of the evolution of Anglo-American law, written for the non-lawyer and non-historian.
Rembar founded the law firm of Rembar & Curtis, which represented writers such as Louise Erdrich, Tom Clancy, Herman Wouk, and Norman Mailer both as lawyers and often as literary agents as well.
Achievements
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Rembar, working for Grove Press, sued the New York city postmaster and won in New York and then on federal appeal. In 1968, he published a book documenting the trials called The End of Obscenity: The Trials of Lady Chatterley, Tropic of Cancer and Fanny Hill, which won a George Polk Award in journalism.
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Subsequently, he defended Henry Miller"s Tropic of Cancer and John Cleland"s Fanny Hill—the latter argued before the United States. Supreme Court—which played a major role in changing the nation"s approach to obscenity.
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October 24, 2000 (aged 85)