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A Short Biography of Marilyn vos Savant

Author Name:

Marilyn vos Savant

Born As:

Marilyn Mach

Other Names:

Marilyn vos Savant

Born:

11 Aug 1946

Died:





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Writer, lecturer and playwright                          
Selected Works:

1985 - Omni I.Q. Quiz Contest
1990 - Brain Building: Exercising Yourself Smarter - co-written with Leonore Fleischer
1992 - Ask Marilyn
1993 - The World's Most Famous Math Problem: The Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem and Other Mathematical Mysteries
1994 - More Marilyn: Some Like It Bright!
1994 - "I've Forgotten Everything I Learned in School!": A Refresher Course to Help You Reclaim Your Education
1996 - Of Course I'm for Monogamy: I'm Also for Everlasting Peace and an End to Taxes
1996 - The Power of Logical Thinking: Easy Lessons in the Art of Reasoning…and Hard Facts about Its Absence in Our Lives
2000 - The Art of Spelling: The Madness and the Method
2002 - Growing Up: A Classic American Childhood.

In addition to her published works, Marilyn has written a collection of humorous short stories called Short Shorts, a stage play called It Was Poppa's Will, and two novels: a satire of a dozen classical civilizations in history called The Re-Creation, and a futuristic political fantasy, as yet untitled.                          
Mother  Mary vos Savant
Father  Joseph Mach
Husband Robert Jarvik, artificial heart pioneer.
Marilyn has two children by the first of her two previous marriages.                          
Belongs to Mensa, Prometheus, and other high-IQ societies.                          
The measurement of extremely high IQs is an inexact science.
Vos Savant was listed in the 1986 to 1989 editions of the Guinness Book of World Records under "Highest IQ.