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Martin Gardner

1914 - 2010

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Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914 – May 22, 2010) was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer with interests also encompassing magic, scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature – especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton. He was a leading authority on Lewis Carroll; The Annotated Alice, which incorporated the text of Carroll's two Alice books, was his most successful work and sold over a million copies. He had a lifelong interest in magic and illusion and in 1999, MAGIC magazine named him as one of the "100 Most Influential Magicians of the Twentieth Century". He was considered the doyen of American puzzlers. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Martin Gardner is the 1,486th most popular writer (up from 1,636th in 2019), the 2,160th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,030th in 2019) and the 170th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Martin Gardner ranks 1,486 out of 7,302. Before him are Joseph Bédier, Anna de Noailles, James Tiptree Jr., Henrik Wergeland, Joseph Addison, and Alistair MacLean. After him are Maj Sjöwall, Winifred Wagner, Elizabeth Siddal, Hugo Claus, Ida Laura Pfeiffer, and Veronica Franco.

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Among people born in 1914, Martin Gardner ranks 77. Before him are Alastair Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Pierre Balmain, Jan Karski, Lilli Palmer, Yakov Zeldovich, and Mario Bava. After him are Kurt Franz, Gyula Cseszneky, Shapour Bakhtiar, Larbi Benbarek, Asger Jorn, and Taizo Kawamoto. Among people deceased in 2010, Martin Gardner ranks 60. Before him are Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Bent Larsen, Paul Schäfer, Hwang Jang-yop, Ryszard Kaczorowski, and Milka Planinc. After him are Carlos Andrés Pérez, John du Pont, Anton Geesink, Patricia Neal, Alexander Haig, and Erich Segal.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Martin Gardner ranks 2,160 out of 20,380. Before him are Andrew Davis (1946), Lisa Ann (1972), Cissy Houston (1933), Adam West (1928), James Tiptree Jr. (1915), and Gene Sharp (1928). After him are Mary Steenburgen (1953), William Le Baron Jenney (1832), Alvin Kraenzlein (1876), Walter Alvarez (1940), Paul L. Smith (1936), and Oliver Otis Howard (1830).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Martin Gardner ranks 170. Before him are William Styron (1925), Poul Anderson (1926), Alice Walker (1944), J. Michael Straczynski (1954), Dan Simmons (1948), and James Tiptree Jr. (1915). After him are Robert Bloch (1917), Robin Hobb (1952), Jean M. Auel (1936), Gore Vidal (1925), Thornton Wilder (1897), and Fredric Jameson (1934).

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