Mark Saxton
| Mark Saxton | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 24, 1914 Mineola, Long Island, New York |
| Died | January 7, 1988 (aged 73) New York City, New York |
| Occupation | Author, editor |
Mark Saxton (November 24, 1914 – January 7, 1988) was an American author and editor. He is chiefly remembered for helping edit for publication Austin Tappan Wright’s Utopian novel Islandia, and for his own three sequels to Wright’s work.
Saxton was born November 28, 1914 in Mineola, Long Island, New York, the son of Eugene F. Saxton, vice president, secretary and head of the editorial department of Harper & Brothers, and Martha (Plaisted) Saxton, an editor and school teacher. He had one brother, Alexander Saxton, also a novelist and notable historian. Mark grew up in New York City, where his father worked, and later attended Harvard College, from which he graduated in 1936. As an adult he lived in both New York and Mill River, Massachusetts. He married Josephine Stocking; the couple had two children, Russell Steele Saxton and Martha Porter Saxton. Mark Saxton died at his home in New York City from an apparent heart attack at the age of 73 on Thursday, January 7, 1988. He was survived by his children Russell and Martha, his wife having predeceased him by many years.
From the late 1930s to the early 1940s Saxton was a book editor and advertising manager in New York City for Farrar & Rinehart, which also published his first three novels. During this time he worked with Sylvia Wright to prepare her late father’s novel Islandia for publication. The firm published the book in 1942, but Saxton’s fascination with the work would be lifelong. Meanwhile, his editorial career was interrupted by service in the Navy during World War II. After his discharge in 1946 he worked as an editor at William Sloane Associates, McGraw-Hill’s Whittlesey House division, and the Harvard University Press, which he left in 1969. Afterwards he was one of the founders of the Gambit, Inc. publishing firm in Boston. From 1980 onward he was a freelance editor in New York.
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