Harding, Maxfield

Born and raised in the suburbs north of New York City, Maxfield Harding was a late bloomer in academic studies in high school and gained entrance to Brown University in 1960. This achievement came more from a need to escape a dysfunctional family than gain academic success and after graduation he joined the Peace Corps in Thailand during the height of the Vietnam War. He married a fellow volunteer after pressure from both their families and lived about in the United States on the fringe of the hippie subculture and the anti-war movement popular at that time. After nine years of marriage and a