This Harry Potter Publisher Blindsided His Family When He Left Them Nothing
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Maurice Richard Robinson Jr. died suddenly on June 5, 2021 while on a walk in Martha’s Vineyard. From 1975 until his recent death, Robinson was the chief executive officer of Scholastic Corporation, a publishing company founded by his father Maurice Robinson. During his tenure as the CEO of Scholastic, his company published many a hit series including Harry Potter, Magic
School Bus, Captain Underpants, Hunger Games, Clifford the Big Red Dog, just to name a few.
Robinson, a Harvard graduate and former high school English teacher, was the son of Maurice R. Robinson, who founded Scholastic in 1920 as a classroom magazine. The younger Robinson started at Scholastic as an editor in the mid-1960s and was later named president of Scholastic in 1974, CEO in 1975, and board chair in 1982.
Robinson was survived by his two sons, John Benham "Ben" Robinson, 34, and Maurice "Reece" Robinson, 25, with ex-wife Helen Benham. Benham and Robinson divorced in 2003, but she remained his confidante and they had become close in the years before his death. She had worked for Scholastic for more than 30 years prior to the divorce, even sitting on the board at one point in time while
also raising their two children. She recounts her husband saying on more than one occasion, “(y)ou care more about Scholastic than I do.”
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