John Maxtone-Graham
John Maxtone-Graham | |
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| Born | John Kurtz Maxtone-Graham August 2, 1929 |
| Died | July 8, 2015 (aged 85) |
| Cause of death | Respiratory failure |
| Occupation(s) | Historian, writer |
| Spouse | Mary |
John Kurtz Maxtone-Graham (August 2, 1929 – July 6, 2015) was a Scottish-American speaker and writer on ocean liners and maritime history.[1]
Biography
Maxtone-Graham was born in Orange, New Jersey to a Scottish father and an American mother. He graduated from Brown University in 1951. He served in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War and then worked as a Broadway stage manager. In 1972 he wrote his first book on ocean liners, The Only Way to Cross, to be followed by numerous other books for small publishing houses. France/Norway, was published in 2010, and in March 2012 he wrote and published Titanic Tragedy. He later worked on a book about the SS United States.[citation needed]
He is the father of writer Ian Maxtone-Graham. John Maxtone-Graham died from respiratory failure in Manhattan on July 6, 2015, aged 85.[2]
See also
References
- ^ findagrave.com..John Maxtone-Graham Retrieved October 25, 2015
- ^ "John Maxtone-Graham, an authority on ocean liners, dies", nytimes.com; accessed July 8, 2015.
External links
- John Maxtone-Graham at IMDb
- Brief biography, galaxsea.com; accessed August 28, 2014.
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- 1929 births
- 2015 deaths
- American maritime historians
- American male writers
- American people of Scottish descent
- American military personnel of the Korean War
- Brown University alumni
- Writers from Hoboken, New Jersey
- Deaths from respiratory failure
- People from Orange, New Jersey
- 20th-century American writers
- 21st-century American writers
- 20th-century American historians
- 21st-century American historians