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.
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.
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.
A fourth, Prepared for Rage (1947), was also issued by the publisher he worked for at the time, in this instance William Sloane Associates.
In his later years, Saxton returned to Wright’s Islandia for his inspiration, and with the permission of the estate set his last three novels in that fictional Utopian realm.