John Maxtone-Graham
{{short description|American historian}}
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| birth_name = John Kurtz Maxtone-Graham
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1929|8|2|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Orange, New Jersey, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2015|7|8|1929|8|2|mf=yes}}
| death_place = Manhattan, New York, U.S.
| occupation = Historian, writer
| spouse = Mary
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John Kurtz Maxtone-Graham (August 2, 1929 – July 6, 2015) was a Scottish-American speaker and writer on ocean liners and maritime history.
Biography
Maxtone-Graham was born in Orange, New Jersey, to a Scottish father and an American mother.[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11744391/John-Maxtone-Graham-author-obituary.html The Telegraph] 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 a social history and appreciation of the Atlantic express liners, The Only Way to Cross, which was a success as a mass-market publication. This was followed by other books on express liner history. France/Norway was published in 2010; in March 2012 he wrote and published Titanic Tragedy; and in October 2014 he published his final book, SS United States: Red, White, & Blue Riband, Forever.
He was married twice and had four children. He is the father of writer Ian Maxtone-Graham. John Maxtone-Graham died from respiratory failure in Manhattan on July 6, 2015, aged 85.[https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/08/books/john-maxtone-graham-an-authority-on-ocean-liners-dies-at-85.html?ref=obituaries "John Maxtone-Graham, an authority on ocean liners, dies"], The New York Times; accessed July 8, 2015.
See also
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0561633|John Maxtone-Graham}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090105181734/http://www.galaxsea.com/aamg.html Brief biography], galaxsea.com; accessed August 28, 2014.
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Category:20th-century American historians
Category:21st-century American historians
Category:21st-century American male writers
Category:20th-century American male writers
Category:American maritime historians
Category:American people of Scottish descent
Category:United States Marine Corps personnel of the Korean War
Category:Brown University alumni
Category:Writers from Hoboken, New Jersey
Category:Deaths from respiratory failure
Category:Writers from Orange, New Jersey