[1] With his wife, Gwendolyn Stevens, Gardner wrote several books, several pamphlets and other shorter works, and more than 50 articles in the field of psychology.
As the 1952 "outstanding graduating student" from Everett High School in Boston, he earned a scholarship to Harvard and thus an education his family could not have afforded.
He met the recurrence with remarkable strength, continuing to travel widely and to remain, in his words, a "fanatical" tennis player.
Known for a brilliant mind and loved for an inexhaustible sense of humor, Gardner was extraordinarily youthful to the last day of his life.
Gwendolyn Stevens has written an account of Gardner's life and ideas, titled Goombah Luigi's Grandson: Memoir of a Jewish Psychologist.