Freedom Long, Max: - Max Freedom Long was an American writer and New Age author who was born on October 26, 1890, and died on September 23, 1971. Max Freedom Long was born in Sterling, Colorado, on October 26, 1890. His parents were Toby Albert Long and Jessie Diffendaffer. When the 1910 census was taken, he was working as a photographer in his hometown and lived with his parents in his grandfather's house. From September 1914 to June 1916, he went to Los Angeles State Normal School. After two years, he got an Associate of Arts degree in general education. After he graduated, he worked for a short time in Los Angeles as a car mechanic. Long went to Hawaii's big island in 1917 to teach in elementary schools there. He moved to Honolulu in 1920 and stayed there until 1932, working in a photography store that he later bought. In 1920, he married Jane Jessie Rae, who was from England and owned the Hotel Davenport in Honolulu. When he got to Hawaii, he said that some of the native people were doing what he called magic. Long wrote that at first he didn't believe this magic would work, but he came to believe it did work over time.