Martin Maximilian Price (January 29, 1920 – April 10, 2010) was an American literary critic and scholar who specialized in 18th-century English literature and thought.
[1] Born in New York City, Price earned his bachelor's degree from City College of New York in 1938, at the young age of 18.
He went on to do graduate work in creative writing and, later, literary criticism at the University of Iowa, where he received his master's degree in 1940.
This was followed by series of teaching stints at the University of Iowa (1939–41) and Drake University (1941–42), which was interrupted by military service during the Second World War.
After the war, Price went to Yale, where he did doctoral work on Jonathan Swift under Maynard Mack, earning a Ph.D. in 1950.