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

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, to a

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father and an American mother.''The Telegraph''
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in 1951. He served in the

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during the

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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 Ian Maxtone-Graham is an American television writer and producer. He has formerly written for ''Saturday Night Live'' (1992–1995) and ''The Simpsons'' (1995–2012), as well as serving as a co-executive producer and consulting producer for the ...

. John Maxtone-Graham died from respiratory failure in Manhattan on July 6, 2015, aged 85."John Maxtone-Graham, an authority on ocean liners, dies"
''The New York Times''; accessed July 8, 2015.

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