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Marshall Grossman was a renowned and award-winning Milton scholar who could make people "laugh hard and think harder".
He studied for his first degree at the State University of New York, Binghamton, and then moved south to New York City to complete an MA at Brooklyn College and a doctorate at New York University. After teaching at Fordham University, he joined the University of Maryland as an associate professor in 1989 and became a full professor in 1996.
Professor Grossman specialised in literature of the Renaissance period and particularly the work of John Milton. He was an elected member of...