Gilbert Cant (September 16, 1909 – August 1, 1982)[1] was a London-born American journalist.
Cant was a member of the all-male literary banqueting club the Trap Door Spiders, which served as the basis of Isaac Asimov's fictional group of mystery solvers the Black Widowers.
After Cant died, Asimov dedicated the collection Banquets of the Black Widowers (1984) to his memory and to that of Frederic Dannay.
In an essay in the September 4, 1972 issue of Time, Cant famously wrote of Reuben Fine, "When Fine switched his major interest from chess to psychoanalysis, the result was a loss for chess—and a draw, at best, for psychoanalysis.
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