liked". Circulation of the magazine was never more than 5,000 copies. He edited the magazine until 1990, when health problems forced him to sell the publication. The magazine ended publication in 2004. A review of the Winter 1985 issue in The Washington Post called Grand Street "Hellenic, leftish, mandarin, impeccable", of which Sonnenberg would later say that he found that the accolade "hardest to accept is 'impeccable'". In his obituary, The New York Times described Grand Street as "one of the most revered literary magazines of the postwar era". Sonnenberg reminisced that "I printed only what I liked; never once did I publish an editorial statement; I offered no writers' guidelines; and I stopped when I couldn't turn the pages anymore". Around 1970, Sonnenberg developed symptoms of multiple sclerosis. He started walking with a cane, later needed a wheelchair and was ultimately paralyzed from the neck down. Despite being a paraplegic, he continued communicating with his colleagues and writing by dictation. Once he was no longer able to continue publishing the magazine and as his inheritance was depleted, he sold Grand Street, though he continued to hold frequent literary gatherings at his apartment after the sale. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1994 Sonnenberg died at age 73 in Manhattan on June 24, 2010, due to complications of multiple sclerosis. He was survived by his third wife, Dorothy Gallagher, as well as by three daughters and five grandchildren. He also had a stepson and three stepgrandchildren. References External links Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University: Letters to Ben Sonnenberg, 1961-2000 1936 births 2010 deaths American publishers (people) Neurological disease deaths in New York (state) Deaths from multiple sclerosis People from Gramercy Park Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature American people of Belarusian-Jewish descent