Gerald Gross, an affiliated agent in the Baltimore/Washington area, worked at Harcourt, Brace and Pantheon Books. He concluded his thirty years in publishing as Senior Vice President of The Macmillan Company. There, as head of the Trade Division, he was responsible for the publication of 450 books per year. Over the years, Gerald worked closely with a wide range of authors: Mary McCarthy, Lewis Mumford, e.e. cummings, Meyer Schapiro, Roger Shattuck, Alfred Kazin, Barbara W. Tuchman, C.G. Jung, Phyllis McGinley, Alma Mahler Werfel, V.S. Naipaul, Mortimer Adler, Dr. Christian Barnard, Arthur Koestler, Albert Speer. In 1957 he was the first editor to have two winners of the National Book Award in the same year—Wright Morris for fiction and Richard Wilbur for poetry.

As a Vice President of Boston University, Gerald founded The Huntington Theatre Company, now the largest regional theater in New England. He was a board member of the National Translation Center and American representative of the German publishing conglomerate Ullstein/Langen-Muller.

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