Andrew Hoyem Pomona College and served in the U.S. Navy. In 1961 he became a partner with Dave Haselwood in The Auerhahn Press, a small literary press that published Beat Generation writers. In 1966 he formed Grabhorn-Hoyem in partnership with Robert Grabhorn, the surviving proprietor of the Grabhorn Press, which he established in 1920 with his brother, Edwin. After Grabhorn's death in 1973, Hoyem re-formed the company as the Arion Press, taking its name from the Greek poet of legend who was saved by a dolphin. Since 1975, he has published more than 80 limited-edition books under the Arion Press imprint, including
Arion (mythology) by Adrastus, king of Argos. The earliest literary mention of Arion is in Homer, "Iliad", XXIII, 346. Statius also made mention of the horse in his 1st-century Latin epic poem the "Thebaid", VI, 301. On the subject of Arion, Homer said in the "Iliad": The Pseudo-Apollodorus (III, 6, 8) recounts that in the defeat of the Argives, the same battle in which Eteocles and Polynices slew each other, Adrastus alone among the Argive leaders survived, saved by his horse Arion that Demeter, in the likeness of a Fury, had conceived by Poseidon. The scholiasts of the "Iliad" (XXIII, 347) and