| John Maxtone-Graham | |
| Birth Name: | John Kurtz Maxtone-Graham |
| Birth Date: | August 2, 1929 |
| Birth Place: | Orange, New Jersey, U.S. |
| 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.
Maxtone-Graham was born in Orange, New Jersey, to a Scottish father and an American mother.[1] 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.[1] 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.[1] 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]