Charles Goren, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Charles Goren

American bridge player, writer, and teacher

Date of Birth: 04-Mar-1901

Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 03-Apr-1991

Profession: writer, bridge player

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Charles Henry Goren (March 4, 1901 – April 3, 1991) was an American bridge player and writer who significantly developed and popularized the game.
He was the leading American bridge personality in the 1950s and 1960s – or 1940s and 1950s, as "Mr.
Bridge" – as Ely Culbertson had been in the 1930s.
Culbertson, Goren, and Harold Vanderbilt were the three people named when The Bridge World inaugurated a bridge "hall of fame" in 1964 and they were made founding members of the ACBL Hall of Fame in 1995.According to New York Times bridge columnist Alan Truscott, more than 10 million copies of Goren's books were sold.
Among them, Point-Count Bidding (1949) "pushed the great mass of bridge players into abandoning Ely Culbertson's clumsy and inaccurate honor-trick method of valuation."