Background
Lederer, Richard Henry was born on May 26, 1938 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Howard Jules and Leah (Perry) Lederer.
( Anguished English is the impossibly funny anthology of ...)
Anguished English is the impossibly funny anthology of accidental assaults upon our common language. From bloopers and blunders to Signs of the Times to Mixed-Up Metaphors . . . from Two-Headed Headlines to Mangling Modifiers . . . it's a collection that will leave you roaring with delight and laughter. Help wanteds: Wanted: Unmarried girls to pick fresh fruit and produce at night. Two-Headed Headlines: Grandmother of eight makes hole in one! Doctor testifies in horse suit. Modern-Day Malapropisms: I suffer from a deviant septum.
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(Fourth in the Anguished English series, this updated coll...)
Fourth in the Anguished English series, this updated collection of verbal bloopers will have word nerds in stitches. Pulling together a hilarious array of unfortunate typos, misplaced modifiers, malapropisms, and unintended double-entendres, the grammatical gaffes of the innocent, the negligent, and the downright pompous are all brought to light. From the gas station sign stating "Eat Here and Get Gas" to the church bulletin that reads "Attend and you will hear an excellent speaker and heave a health lunch," hundreds of linguistic blunders are gathered from every layer of society and presented in this jocular assemblage, extracted exactly as they were originally presented.
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(Let the games begin with this all-new collection of 50 ex...)
Let the games begin with this all-new collection of 50 extra challenging puzzles based on wordplay themes! Features anagrams, bloopers, jokes, palindromes, puns, and rhymes. Puzzle introductions written by humorist and word-play expert Richard Lederer, with witty titles such as: -- It's a Punderful Life
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(Master verbalist Richard Lederer, America's "Wizard of Id...)
Master verbalist Richard Lederer, America's "Wizard of Idiom" (Denver Post), presents a love letter to the most glorious of human achievements... Welcome to Richard Lederer's beguiling celebration of language -- of our ability to utter, write, and receive words. No purists need stop here. Mr. Lederer is no linguistic sheriff organizing posses to hunt down and string up language offenders. Instead, join him "In Praise of English," and discover why the tongue described in Shakespeare's day as "of small reatch" has become the most widely spoken language in history: • English never rejects a word because of race, creed, or national origin. Did you know that jukebox comes from Gullah and canoe from Haitian Creole? • Many of our greatest writers have invented words and bequeathed new expressions to our eveyday conversations. Can you imagine making up almost ten percent of our written vocabulary? Scholars now know that William Shakespeare did just that! He also points out the pitfalls and pratfalls of English. If a man mans a station, what does a woman do? In the "The Department of Redundancy Department," "Is English Prejudiced?" and other essays, Richard Lederer urges us not to abandon that which makes us human: the capacity to distinguish, discriminate, compare, and evaluate.
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(All the joy of the best-selling Anguished English is bac...)
All the joy of the best-selling Anguished English is back! 2,000 all-new side-splitting flubs, fluffs, and hilariously funny accidental assaults on our language.
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(Following on from the best-selling titles Anguished Engli...)
Following on from the best-selling titles Anguished English and More Anguished English, Richard Lederer's latest humorous collection comprises a wonderful concoction of fluffs, goofs, gaffes, botches and blunders, including new categories concerning the things kids say in churches ('Solomon had 300 wives and 500 porcupines'), a history of the United States according to students ('World War I made the people so sad that it brought on the Great Depression'), hilarious menu items that are lost in translation ('Our wines leave you nothing to hope for'), and the Hall of Fame section that highlights the all-time bloopers. Filled with Lederer's trademark intelligence, humour and down-to-earth advice, this newest instalment of the gifts of our oddball language is a book to cherish.
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( A rousing collection of crossword puzzles from humorist...)
A rousing collection of crossword puzzles from humorist and wordplay expert Richard Lederer and award-winning puzzle constructor Gayle Dean, this book presents 100 original crossword puzzles that include amusing, witty, and highly challenging themes. The brain-teasing collection features palindromes, anagrams, puns, rhymes, bloopers, and jokes and allows readers to flex their crossword-solving muscles with weighty puzzle sections that include It's a Punderful Life, The Antics of Semantics, The Game Is the Name, and Letter-Perfect Puzzles. Each of the challenging puzzles designed to stretch wordplay skills includes an introduction from author Richard Lederer.
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(A collection of language gems by the author of Anguished ...)
A collection of language gems by the author of Anguished English includes side-tickling language bloopers under such headings as Mouths of Babes, Classified Classics, Poli-Tickle Speeches, and Science Friction.
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( Have some fun with your native tongue! In The Cunning ...)
Have some fun with your native tongue! In The Cunning Linguist, renowned language expert Richard Lederer shows us the naughtier side of wordplay, revealing hundreds of hilarious, ingenious, unabashed, and adults-only puns, jokes, limericks, one-liners, and other adventures in sexual humor. This book of "good, clean dirty fun" will delight word hounds, punsters, bachelor-party goers, and anyone who likes a clever grown-up joke. Here's a taste of The Cunning Linguist: Q: What does a man have in his pants that you can also find on a pool table? A: Pockets. Have you heard about the incompatible couple? He had no income, and she wasn't pattable. The four stages of a couple's sex life: Under 35: Tri-weekly 35-45: Try weekly 45-55: Try weakly 55 and over: Try, try, try. For much more, sneak between the covers of this unique and laugh-out-loud book.
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( Get Thee to a Punnery proves that the pun is mightier t...)
Get Thee to a Punnery proves that the pun is mightier than the sword . . . and here are sidesplitting puns of every color, stripe and persuasion to suit every whim. Even if you don't know that your humerus is your funny bone, this is the book for you. The Time of the Signs: • On a diaper service truck: Rock a dry baby. • On a plumber's service truck: A flush is better than a full house. • Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a communist plot! -Edgar Bergen • Quiche me-I'm French! • Hangover-the wrath of grapes • Work is the ruin of the drinking classes. -Oscar Wilde
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(Anguished English is the impossibly funny anthology of ac...)
Anguished English is the impossibly funny anthology of accidental assaults upon our language. From bloopers and blunders to Signs of the Times to Mixed Up Metaphors...from Two-Headed Headlines to Mangling Modifiers, here is an outrageous treasury of assaults upon our common language that will leave you roaring with delight and laughter.
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( Language skills will fly through the air with the great...)
Language skills will fly through the air with the greatest of ease as kids join in The Circus of Words. Children of all ages are delighted by anagrams, palindromes, acrostics, alliteration, riddles, and puns, yet few books on wordplay are addressed to middle-schoolers. This creative and challenging activity book shows kids how to juggle letters to become ringmasters of wordplay. “The Shrinking Spotlight” shows how larger words become smaller words when certain letters are removed. “Clown Cars” introduces the idea of words hiding within words, and “The Acro Bat” and “Silver Spoonerisms” show off letter clusters that change from one word to another. The whole bandwagon is here, enabling kids, who are natural language enthusiasts, to cavort through that endless entertainment, the English language.
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(Do you know the connection between the expression A HARRO...)
Do you know the connection between the expression A HARROWING EXPERIENCE and agriculture, between BY AND LARGE and sailing, between GET YOUR GOAT and horses, or between STEAL YOUR THUNDER and show business? You probably have heard the comparisons HAPPY AS A CLAM, SMART AS A WHIP, PLEASED AS PUNCH, DEAD AS A DOORNAIL - but have you ever wondered why a clam should be happy, a whip smart, punch pleased, and a doornail dead? By playing the fifty games in this book , you'll discover the answers to these questions as well as hundreds of other semantic delights that repose in our marvelous English language.
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(This exuberant collection of songs, limericks, spoonerism...)
This exuberant collection of songs, limericks, spoonerisms and puns of every sort is a delight for everyone who enjoys risque jokes or double entendres. Written by the highly acclaimed Richard Lederer, The Cunning Linguist deals exclusively with sexual humour that depends on wordplay. Avoiding the school of joke telling that depends on insulting targeted groups, the author takes his cue from Shakespeare and his bawdy humour to create over two thousand jokes and quickies that play with the verbal vivacity of English vocabulary. What's the difference between a new job and a new bride? After six months, the new job still sucks. Recommended reading: The Tiger's Revenge by Claude Balls; The author has even included his newly devised sexicography, The Dirty Dicktionary, with new definitions such as: pathetic fallacy - a small pecker.
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('Hair Cut While You Wait.' 'Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim....)
'Hair Cut While You Wait.' 'Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim.' 'Satellite Tracks Cows from Outer Space.' These are some of the absurdly hilarious linguistic lapses gleaned by Richard Lederer from advertisements, signs, newspaper headlines, and other everyday sources. Dr. Lederer, author of more than thirty books about language, history, and humor, has compiled 313 entries for this calendar (Saturdays and Sundays share a page and an entry), each one a real-world sighting. Thirteen categories include Misdirected Directions, Lost in Translation, and Disorder in the Court! Also included are yearly grids for 2011 and 2012 and pages for notes. 365-day padded tear-off calendar with plastic base. Size: 6.25 x 5.25 in. (box 7 x 6 in.). Printed with soy-based inks.
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( Richard Lederer has been called Attila the Pun, Conan t...)
Richard Lederer has been called Attila the Pun, Conan the Grammarian, and the Viceroy of Verbivores. In The Revenge of Anguished English, Lederer leaves us limp with laughter at how the innocent, the negligent, and the pompous mangle the English language. Lederer loves a good verbal blooper: Unfortunate typos, misplaced modifiers, unintended double-entendres, downright stupidity---it’s all here, collected and celebrated by the most popular anguished language expert of them all. As a bonus, not a single blooper, blunder, or boo-boo has been made up or fiddled with. Consider these bloopers: • In an essay, a student wrote, “The ship that brought the first settlers to the new world was the Cauliflower.” • Many gas stations equipped with snack stores display the sign “Eat Here and Get Gas.” • A classified ad offered “antique desk suitable for lady with thick legs and large drawers.” • Another student blooper: The four gospels are written by John, Paul, George, and that other guy. • A science blooper: Elephants eat roots, leaves, grasses, and sometimes bark. • In a church bulletin: Attend and you will hear an excellent speaker and heave a healthy lunch. • On a baby stroller: Remove child before folding.
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( Are you confounded by commas, addled by apostrophes, or...)
Are you confounded by commas, addled by apostrophes, or queasy about quotation marks? Do you believe a bracket is just a support for a wall shelf, a dash is something you make for the bathroom, and a colon and semicolon are large and small intestines? If so, language humorists Richard Lederer and John Shore (with the sprightly aid of illustrator Jim McLean), have written the perfect book to help make your written words perfectly precise and punctuationally profound. Don't expect Comma Sense to be a dry, academic tome. On the contrary, the authors show how each mark of punctuation--no matter how seemingly arcane--can be effortlessly associated with a great American icon: the underrated yet powerful period with Seabiscuit; the jazzy semicolon with Duke Ellington; even the rebel apostrophe with famed outlaw Jesse James. But this book is way more than a flight of whimsy. When you've finished Comma Sense, you'll not only have mastered everything you need to know about punctuation through Lederer and Shore's simple, clear, and right-on-the-mark rules, you'll have had fun doing so. When you're done laughing and learning, you'll be a veritable punctuation whiz, ready to make your marks accurately, sensitively, and effectively.
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('Thank you for your cooperation and vice versa.' 'A hurri...)
'Thank you for your cooperation and vice versa.' 'A hurricane is a breeze of a bigly size.' Some people are bird-watchers; Richard Lederer watches word-botchers. Eagle-eyed radio language commentator and author of many books on language, Lederer here brings us 313 jewels of misuse (each Saturday and Sunday share a page and an entry) in fourteen categories, among them School Daze, Wholly Holy Blooper, and Stop the Presses! Each amusing entry is the product of a genuine real-world sighting. Also included are yearly grids for 2009 and 2010, and pages for notes. 365-day padded tear-off calendar with plastic base. Size: 6 1/4 x 5 1/4 in. (box 7 x 6 in.).
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(Lederer frolics through the logic-boggling byways of our ...)
Lederer frolics through the logic-boggling byways of our language, discovering the names for phobias you didn't know you could have
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(Anguished English is the impossibly funny anthology of ac...)
Anguished English is the impossibly funny anthology of accidental assaults upon our common language. From bloopers and blunders to Signs of the Times to Mixed - Up Metaphors . . . from Two - Headed Headlines to Mangling Modifiers . . . it's a collection that will leave you roaring with delight and laughter. Help wanteds: Wanted: Unmarried girls to pick fresh fruit and produce at night.Two - Headed Headlines: Grandmother of eight makes hole in one! Doctor testifies in horse suit.Modern - Day Malapropisms: I suffer from a deviant septum.
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(Anyone who's tackled tricky grammar, slippery syntax, pes...)
Anyone who's tackled tricky grammar, slippery syntax, pesky punctuation, or sneaky jargon knows that good writing is never easy. In this ingenious guide, enjoy the wit of two English language mavens as they entertain while answering all our perplexing questions.
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(Anguished English is the impossibly funny anthology of ac...)
Anguished English is the impossibly funny anthology of accidental assaults upon our common language. From bloopers and blunders to Signs of the Times to Mixed - Up Metaphors ...from Two - Headed Headlines to Mangling Modifiers ...it's a collection that will leave you roaring with delight and laughter. Help wanteds: Wanted: Unmarried girls to pick fresh fruit and produce at night. Two - Headed Headlines: Grandmother of eight makes hole in one! Doctor testifies in horse suit. Modern - Day Malapropisms: I suffer from a deviant septum.
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( Anguished English is the impossibly funny anthology of ...)
Anguished English is the impossibly funny anthology of accidental assaults upon our common language. From bloopers and blunders to Signs of the Times to Mixed-Up Metaphors . . . from Two-Headed Headlines to Mangling Modifiers . . . it's a collection that will leave you roaring with delight and laughter. Help wanteds: Wanted: Unmarried girls to pick fresh fruit and produce at night. Two-Headed Headlines: Grandmother of eight makes hole in one! Doctor testifies in horse suit. Modern-Day Malapropisms: I suffer from a deviant septum.
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( Popular author and speaker Richard Lederer is one of th...)
Popular author and speaker Richard Lederer is one of the foremost and funniest commentators on the pleasures and quirks of the English language. In this far-ranging and career-capping collection of essays, Lederer offers readers more of the irrepressible wordplay and linguistic high jinx his fans can't get enough of, along with observations on a life in letters. From an inner-city classroom to a wordy weekend retreat, from centuries-old etymological legacies to the latest in slang, dialects, and fadspeak, these essays transport, inform, and entertain as only wordstruck Richard Lederer can. Iluminating everything from secrets of the writing life to the last word on the pronunciation of nuclear and offering his thoughts on "Sex and the Singular Pronoun" and an open letter to Ann Landers (signed "English Lover in San Diego"), along with games, quizzes, and a Declaration of Linguistic Independence, this collection has something for everyone who delights in our language. Keen-eared and good-humored, A Man of My Words is sure to take its place next to Anguished English and The Miracle of Language as one of Richard Lederer's most popular and enduring works.
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( Introduces the wacky world of wordplay with puns, spoon...)
Introduces the wacky world of wordplay with puns, spoonerisms, games of word substitution, and more.
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(Richard Lederer's Classic Literary Trivia from Mythology,...)
Richard Lederer's Classic Literary Trivia from Mythology, Shakespeare, and the Bible What biblical character said, "Am I my brother's keeper?" (Cain) Who was the chief of the ancient Greek gods? (Zeus) Shakespeare's plays are generally classified into which three categories? (tragedies, comedies, and histories)
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( When Bob Dylan crooned, "The answer, my friend, is blow...)
When Bob Dylan crooned, "The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind," it turned out a lot of people thought he had declared an odd but worthy allegiance to tiny creatures in trouble: "The ants are my friends, blowin' in the wind!" Word lovers, pun lovers, music lovers, slaphappy kids, and everyone with a sense of humor will groan mightily at this collection of just such misunderstood, borrowed, fractured, and pun-filled versions of song lyrics, compiled by two talented humorists, both former International Punsters of the Year.
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(The authors cataloged the old jokes, added variations on ...)
The authors cataloged the old jokes, added variations on them, and invented new ones to produce probably the largest collection of animal jokes ever put on display -- 4,509 of them numbered and scores of them unnumbered puns that appear in the introduction, in section intros, and in multi-pun jokes such as 2013, 3094, 3693. There are animals from Aardvark to Zyzzyva, animals in daffynitions, mixes, crosses, knock-knocks, Tom Swifties, in the classroom, in the vet s office, at the zoo . . . There are riddles, puns, and "did-you-hear-the one about" and "why-did-the" jokes. There are howlers, laughers, smilers, groaners from kindergarten to high school. And beyond that are some jokes for grownups (groan-ups?): bar scenes, the battle of the sexes, married life, raising children, politics. The Giant Book was a runner-up in humor in the San Diego Book Awards and the Silver Award winner in humor in the 2006 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards
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(New! Wordplay comes to crossword puzzles in this all-new ...)
New! Wordplay comes to crossword puzzles in this all-new collection by humorist and wordplay expert Richard Lederer and award-winning puzzle constructor Gayle Dean. Contains 50 puzzles based on a wordplay theme. Features palindromes, anagrams, puns, rhymes, bloopers, and jokes. Each puzzle includes an introduction by Richard Lederer.
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(Led by a self-proclaimed verbivore--someone who makes a d...)
Led by a self-proclaimed verbivore--someone who makes a daily diet of words--this journey through the marvels and complexities of the English language celebrates oxymorons, confusables, anagrams, and more. By the author of Crazy English.
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Lederer, Richard Henry was born on May 26, 1938 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Howard Jules and Leah (Perry) Lederer.
He graduated from Haverford College as a pre-medical student. He attended Harvard Law School for one year, then switched to the Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Harvard University. He later earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics from the University of New Hampshire.
He is best known for his books on the English language and on word play such as puns, oxymorons, and anagrams. He refers to himself as "the Wizard of Idiom," "Attila the Pun," and "Conan the Grammarian." His weekly column, "Looking at Language", is syndicated in newspapers and magazines throughout the United States. Lederer was the youngest of five children born to a Jewish mother from Poland and a Jewish father from Bavaria.
He was raised in West Philadelphia.
He taught English and media at the Saint Paul"s School in Concord, New Hampshire for 27 years until 1989, where he served as the first Jewish head of a department. He has written more than 30 books, including Anguished English (1987), Get Thee to a Punnery (1988), Crazy English (1989), A Manitoba of My Words (2003), The Word Circus (1998), The Miracle of Language (1992), The Cunning Linguist (2001), Word Wizard (2006), and Presidential Trivia (2007).
Known as a "verbivore", a word he coined in the early 1980s, Lederer"s interests include uncovering word origins, pointing out common grammatical errors and fallacies, and exploring palindromes, anagrams, and other forms of recreational wordplay. Lederer wrote the foreword to Words at Play: Quips, Quirks and Oddities, by O.V. Michaelsen (Sterling Publishing Company, New York, 1998), and to Weather Facts and Fun (2009), a children"s book on weather, co-written by Josh Judge and Kathe Cussen and published by SciArt Media.
He was elected International Punster of the Year in 1989 and was the 2002 recipient of the Golden Gavel of Toastmasters International.
In 1998, he and Charles Harrington Elster became founding co-hosts of the weekly radio show, A Way with Words, produced by KPBS, San Diego Public Radio, and broadcast by multiple stations throughout the United States. In October 2006, Lederer retired from A Way with Words. He continues broadcasting through regular guest appearances on several major market public and Clear-Channel commercial radio stations.
(Following on from the best-selling titles Anguished Engli...)
(Do you know the connection between the expression A HARRO...)
(Do you know the connection between the expression A HARRO...)
( When Bob Dylan crooned, "The answer, my friend, is blow...)
( Are you confounded by commas, addled by apostrophes, or...)
(The authors cataloged the old jokes, added variations on ...)
(Richard Lederer's Classic Literary Trivia from Mythology,...)
( Have some fun with your native tongue! In The Cunning ...)
(Richard Lederer's Literary Trivia What fictional detect...)
( A rousing collection of crossword puzzles from humorist...)
(From the author of Crazy English and The Miracle of Langu...)
(A collection of language gems by the author of Anguished ...)
(Led by a self-proclaimed verbivore--someone who makes a d...)
(Let the games begin with this all-new collection of 50 ex...)
(All the joy of the best-selling Anguished English is bac...)
(New! Wordplay comes to crossword puzzles in this all-new ...)
(This exuberant collection of songs, limericks, spoonerism...)
( Popular author and speaker Richard Lederer is one of th...)
(Master verbalist Richard Lederer, America's "Wizard of Id...)
(Lederer frolics through the logic-boggling byways of our ...)
(Anyone who's tackled tricky grammar, slippery syntax, pes...)
(Fourth in the Anguished English series, this updated coll...)
( Language skills will fly through the air with the great...)
( Anguished English is the impossibly funny anthology of ...)
( Richard Lederer has been called Attila the Pun, Conan t...)
( Richard Lederer has been called Attila the Pun, Conan t...)
(Anguished English is the impossibly funny anthology of ac...)
(Anguished English is the impossibly funny anthology of ac...)
( Anguished English is the impossibly funny anthology of ...)
( Introduces the wacky world of wordplay with puns, spoon...)
(Anguished English is the impossibly funny anthology of ac...)
( Get Thee to a Punnery proves that the pun is mightier t...)
('Thank you for your cooperation and vice versa.' 'A hurri...)
('Hair Cut While You Wait.' 'Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim....)
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(Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
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Member American Mensa, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Delta Kappa.
Married Rhoda Anne Spangenberg, August 25, 1962 (divorced 1986). Married Simone Johanna van Egeren, November 29, 1991. Children: Howard Henry, Anne Labarr, Katherine Lee.