(1915) went after
Samuel Roth but wound up arresting Henry Zolinsky instead At City College, Zolinsky was an editor of
The Lavender, student poetry magazine. His circle of friends extended to other student poets and writers, including many from
Columbia University like
Louis Zukofsky,
Whittaker Chambers,
Meyer Schapiro, and
Samuel Roth. {{cite journal {{cite web In 1929, Henry Zolinsky was working for the bookstore of
Samuel Roth in New York City. On October 4, 1929,
John Saxton Sumner, head of the
New York Society for the Suppression of Vice or "NYSVV" (chartered by the
New York State Legislature), raided a warehouse of the Golden Hind Press (owned by Samuel Roth) in
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The warehouse held copies of
Ulysses, ''
Lady Chatterley's Lover, Fanny Hill'', and others–at the time, all considered pornographic under current U.S. law. Legally, the NYSVV could not tie Roth to the warehouse, but they could and did tie Zolinsky and Roth's brother Max Roth, who were arrested at the warehouse (a distribution point near New York City). Zolinsky spent several months in jail. {{cite book {{cite news {{cite book In late 1929 or 1930, Zolinsky, his wife, and newborn daughter came to live in
Lynbrook, Long Island, with Whittaker Chambers at the home of his mother, Laha Chambers. In December 1931, Zolinsky's name appeared with those of his college friends (among them, Zukofsky and Chambers) in the famous December 1931 "Objectivist" issue of
Poetry magazine. {{cite journal {{cite web {{cite web In 1940, Zolinsky's name appears in the U.S. Census as 36 years old, living in New York City with wife Mary Jane Zolinsky (32) and daughter Nancy Zolinsky (10), and earning his living as a school teacher (as did his long-time friend Zukofsky). {{cite web ==Personal and death==