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Chapters: Martin Gardner, R. A. Lafferty, Ralph Ellison, John Berryman, C. J. Cherryh, Tony Hillerman, Sarah Vowell, Joe Haldeman, Wilma Mankiller, Sarah Hudson-Pierce, Michael Wilson, Chad Sweeney, Robert Wright, S. E. Hinton, Carolyn Hart, Ted Berrigan, Ally Carter, Don Blanding, Hastings Shade, Skip Bayless, Steven E. Wedel, Larry Winget, Robert B. Wyatt, Merlyn Mantle, Linda Hogan, Ron Padgett, Victor Milan, Michael Paul Mason, Pamela Harrison, Judith Moore, Joe Mcguff, Rilla Askew, Matt Braun, Jack Bickham, Anna Lee Walters, Benjamin Vogt, Eddie Chuculate, Jay Cronley, Laura Misch, Dwight V. Swain, Dennis Hunter, Kyle Williams, Cindy Chupack, Joyce Carol Thomas, Joseph E. Kelleam. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 198. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914 May 22, 2010) was an American mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational mathematics, but with interests encompassing micromagic, stage magic, literature (especially the writings of Lewis Carroll), philosophy, scientific skepticism, and religion. He wrote the Mathematical Games column in Scientific American from 1956 to 1981, and published over 70 books. Martin Gardner grew up in and around Tulsa, Oklahoma, and he attended college at the University of Chicago, where he earned his bachelor's degree in philosophy. During World War II, he served for several years in the U.S. Navy as a yeoman (the ship's secretary) on board the destroyer escort USS Pope (DE-134) in the Atlantic. His ship was still in the Atlantic when the war came to an end with the surrender of Japan in August 1945. After the war, Gardner attended college at the University of Chicago again. He also attended graduate school for a year there, but he did not earn an advanced degree. For many decades, Gardner, his wife Cha...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=20435 ... Read more

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