Edward Maisel (August 16, 1937 — March 21, 2008) He was born in Buffalo, New York. He went to Harvard University where he graduated Magna Cum Laude; he was also Phi Beta Kappa. He was an internationally known writer on music and Tai-Chi. He lived in New York City for most of his life.

He wrote Charles T. Griffes: the Life of an American Composer, the first definitive and still influential biography of this major early American composer. The CD The Songs of Charles T. Griffes was produced by Mr. Maisel. The Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater presented Mr. Maisel's production of Griffes' final but unfinished masterpiece Salut au Monde.

Mr. Maisel wrote the first Western manual of the classic Yang form of Tai Chi using the title Tai Chi for Health. This classic was published in the early 60s. He was Director of the American Physical Fitness Research Institute and a consultant to the President's Council on Physical Fitness.

Edward Maisel worked extensively with the Alexander Technique and wrote an introduction to a compendium of Alexander's writings he himself selected.

In his book Dr. America: the lives of Thomas Anthony Dooley III, James T. Fisher acknowledges receipt of copies of medical files from Maisel on suspected cases of AIDS prior to 1980 (e. g. 1968 U. S. AIDS virus infection documentation). Maisel obtained the files from Robert Galagan, MD, Hawaii.

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