Maxim Lieber was a prominent American literary agent in New York City during the 1930s and 1940s.
14 Facts About Maxim Lieber
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The Soviet spy Whittaker Chambers named him as an accomplice in 1949, and Lieber fled first to Mexico and then Poland not long after Alger Hiss's conviction in 1950.
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Maxim Lieber was born on October 15,1897, in Warsaw, then Congress Poland, to a family of Jewish origin.
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Maxim Lieber's father served as a typesetter for the Yiddish social-democratic newspaper The Jewish Daily Forward, suggesting that one parent was secularist.
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Young Maxim Lieber attended public schools, including Townsend Harris Hall and Morris High School.
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In 1918, Maxim Lieber joined the West Ontario Regiment of the Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary Force.
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Maxim Lieber had a lively sense of humor which Hiss lacked.
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Maxim Lieber went among various feature syndicates and various newspapers and tried to get various interests or sales.
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On June 13,1950, Lieber appeared with lawyer Milton H Friedman before HUAC during executive session with House representatives Francis E Walter, Burr P Harrison, and Morgan M Moulder.
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Maxim Lieber left the US for Mexico in 1951 with his wife Minna and their two children.
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In late 1954, on instructions from Moscow, Maxim Lieber moved with his family to Warsaw, Poland.
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In 1924, Maxim Lieber married to Irma Cohen, with whom he had one son and whom he divorced by 1933.
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Maxim Lieber married Sally Tanenbaum in May 1936, whom he divorced before 1939.
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Maxim Lieber died age 95 in East Hartford, Connecticut on April 10,1993.