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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Maurice Girodias (12 April 1919 - 3 July 1990) was the founder of the The Olympia Press. At one time he was the owner of his father's Obelisk Press, and spent most of his productive years in Paris. The son of Manchester-born Jack Kahane and a French heiress, Girodias lived a relatively idyllic childhood, until the Depression forced his father to take up a new profession in Paris, namely publishing risqu books in English for the consumption of foreign tourists, who because of censorship could not obtain such materials at home. French censorship laws had a loophole allowing English works to be published without domestic confiscation. Kahane's venture (Girodias later took his mother's birth name to hide his Jewish background from the Nazis) was called the Obelisk Press. It published notorious works by Frank Harris, Henry Miller and Ana?'s Nin, as well as several pieces of light erotica written by Kahane himself.

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