Howard Gardner - Personal Life

Personal Life

Gardner is married to Ellen Winner. They have one child, Benjamin, born in 1985. Gardner has three children from an earlier marriage: Kerith (1969), Jay (1971) and Andrew (1976) and two grandchildren, Oscar, born in 2005, and Agnes, born in 2011. Gardner described himself as "a studious child who gained much pleasure from playing the piano".

He is also currently a board member at Amherst College and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). He served on the board of the Spencer Foundation for 10 years (2001-2011).

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