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ObituariesIn Remembrance: Maggie Mahar ’71, ’75PhD Died on May 11 2026Maggie Mahar died on May 11, 2026, from complications following a stroke. After starting out as an English professor, she changed careers and pursued a career as a journalist, writing for Money magazine, Institutional Investor, the New York Times, and Barrons, among others. The New York Times carried a full obituary on May 23, 2026. |
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Maggie taught a seminar I took senior year on Yeats, Eliot, and Stevens. She was calmly brilliant, a generous and challenging mentor to her students. We learned so much from her. To me she epitomized what I loved most about Yale: the sense that intellectual curiosity is a life-giving force. I wish I could have talked with her later in life, to find out how she looked back at those years. Having so recently earned her doctorate, she would have I imagine much to say about the powerful intellectual, political, and institutional currents transforming the academic world in the 1970s and 80s. Mostly though, I wish I could thank her.