Max R. Hall, writer and editor, 100
Max R. Hall, a former journalist, writer, teacher of writing, and scholarly book editor, died in Cambridge on Jan. 12 at 100 years of age. Until his retirement, Hall was editor at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, social sciences editor at Harvard University Press, and editorial adviser at Harvard Business School. A native of Atlanta, Hall moved to Cambridge in 1960 with his family after living in Washington, D.C., and New York. Hall spent 20 years as a journalist, including nine years at the Associated Press, and a year as a Nieman Foundation fellow in journalism at Harvard. Hall attended Emory University, and received an honorary doctorate of letters from there in 1995. Hall loved the Charles River, printing, publishing, and Benjamin Franklin, and he wrote books on all of these topics. His books include “The Charles: The People’s River,” “Harvard University Press: A History,” “An Embarrassment of Misprints: Comical and...