Maurice Sagoff (1909 or 1910 – March 18, 1998) was an American poet best remembered for ShrinkLits, his bestselling collection of light verse.
After graduating from Boston College he worked for one decade as a research librarian at the Boston Public Library and for two decades at Fairchild Publications as a regional editor.
After his retirement in 1954 he wrote ShrinkLits: 70 of the World's Towering Classics Cut Down to Size, a collection of literary classics condensed into terse light poetry.
He subsequently published his poetry in a number of publications, including The New York Times and Mademoiselle.
Though ShrinkLits was his only published book, shortly before his death in 1998 he had completed a new manuscript for a collection of clerihews.