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. References 1934 births 2005 deaths 20th-century American psychologists People from Chelsea, Massachusetts People from Cape Girardeau, Missouri Harvard University alumni University of Southern California alumni University of North Carolina at Asheville faculty People from Mystic, Connecticut