Mitchell Goodman was an author who organized the protest that helped bring The Dr. Spock Trial into court. In 1968, he signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.

For many years, Mitchell summered in Temple, Maine

Temple, Maine

Temple is a town in Franklin County, Maine, United States. The town was named after Temple, New Hampshire. It is located at the end of Maine State Route 43 , and is said to be one of only two towns in Maine to be situated at the end of a public highway...

 with his wife, the well-known poet Denise Levertov

Denise Levertov

-Early life and influences:Levertov was born and grew up in Ilford, Essex.Couzyn, Jeni Contemporary Women Poets. Bloodaxe, p74 Her mother, Beatrice Spooner-Jones Levertoff, came from a small mining village in North Wales...

. They had a son, Nikolai, who is an artist and a writer.

Partial Bibliography

• 1970 - The movement toward a new America: The beginnings of a long revolution; (a collage) --a what?
• 1980 - The End of It: A Novel. Sagaponack, NY: Second Chance Press