[chronology citation needed] He was married to the artist Joanna Pinsky since 1963; they have three children, Seth, Jonathan and Lea, and four grandchildren, Nathan, Jason, Justin and Jasper.
[citation needed] Pinsky was a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics[1][6] and member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Theoretical Probability.
[7] His early work was directed toward generalizations of the central limit theorem, known as random evolution, on which he wrote a monograph in 1991.
[1] Pinsky was coordinator of the twenty-ninth Midwest Probability Colloquium, held at Northwestern University in October 2007.
[8] In 2008, the Department of Mathematics at Northwestern University received a private donation from Mark and Joanna Pinsky to endow an annual lecture series.