John Maxtone-Graham

{{Infobox person | image = | image_size = | name = John Maxtone-Graham | caption = | 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 | signature = John Maxtone-Graham signature (cropped).jpg }}

'''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.<ref name=telegraph>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11744391/John-Maxtone-Graham-author-obituary.html ''The Telegraph'']</ref> 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.<ref name=telegraph/> 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.<ref name=telegraph/> He is the father of writer Ian Maxtone-Graham. John Maxtone-Graham died from respiratory failure in Manhattan on July 6, 2015, aged 85.<ref>[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.</ref>

==See also== *Frank O. Braynard

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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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