GARDNER, Martin
(*1914)
GARDNER, Martin (21 October 1914). A truly independent writer for most of his life, noted mostly for his books about science and pseudoscience, Gardner is also a primary scholar of truly eccentric literature,beginning with elaborately annotated and introducededitions of Lewis Carroll : The Annotated Alice (1960) and The Annotated Snark (1962), the latter dealing with a less intelligible text. Some of Gardner’s appreciationsof Oulipo , among other avant-garde writers mentionedhere, appeared in…