Grier, Barbara (4 Nov. 1933–10 Nov. 2011), editor and publisher, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Phillip Grier, a pharmaceutical salesman, and Dorothy Black, a stenographer from a theatrical family. Her parents separated when she was ten and divorced four years later. Raised by her mother, Grier and two younger sisters spent their childhoods in Michigan, Colorado, and Kansas. She graduated from Wyandotte High School in Kansas City, Kansas, in ...
