EIDINOW, John

PERSONAL: Married; children: three. Education: Graduated from Cambridge University.

ADDRESSES: Home—London, England. Agent—Jacqueline Korn, David Higham Associates, 5-8 Lower John St., Golden Square, London W1F 9HA, England.

CAREER: Journalist. Practiced law for four years; British Broadcasting Company (BBC), London, England, television director, producer, and interviewer for twenty-five years; produced news programs for BBC World Service and documentaries for Radio Four. Also worked as a media, presentation, and speech trainer. Military service: Served two years in British Army.

WRITINGS:

(With David Edmonds) Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument between Two Great Philosophers, Ecco Press (New York, NY), 2001.

(With David Edmonds) Bobby Fischer Goes to War:How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time, Ecco Press (New York, NY), 2004.

SIDELIGHTS: For sidelights, see entry on David Edmonds, elsewhere in this volume.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Arts Telegraph (London, England), January 12, 2004, Daniel Johnson, "Pawns of the Cold War."

Booklist, October 1, 2001, review of Wittgenstein'sPoker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument between Two Great Philosophers, p. 270; January 1, 2004, David Pitt, review of Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time, p. 808.

Christian Science Monitor, January 17, 2002, N. L. Malcolm, "Dueling Philosophers: The Implications of This Ten-Minute Clash Still Reverberate."

Entertainment Weekly, March 12, 2004, Gregory Kirschling, review of Bobby Fischer Goes to War, p. 118.

Etc., fall, 2003, Martin H. Levinson, review of Wittgenstein's Poker, pp. 324-325.

First Things, May, 2002, Edward T. Oakes, "Problems or Puzzles?" pp. 41-43.

Guardian, May 12, 2001, Stuart Jeffries, "Jiggery Pokery"; January 31, 2004, Steven Poole, "Hardcore Pawns."

Kirkus Reviews, September 1, 2001, review of Wittgenstein's Poke, p. 1261; December 15, 2003, review of Bobby Fischer Goes to War, pp. 1434-1435.

Library Journal, January, 2004, Ed Goedeken, review of Bobby Fischer Goes to War, pp. 130-131.

Los Angeles Times, February 3, 2002, John Romano, "The Night in Question," p. R4.

New Yorker, April 1, 2002, Adam Gopnik, "The Porcupine: A Pilgrimage to Popper," pp. 88-93.

New York Times Book Review, December 30, 2001, Jim Holt, "Ludwig Has Left the Building," p. 10; January 6, 2002, "Wittgenstein's Poker (and Bear in Mind)," p. 18; September 22, 2002, Scott Veale, review of Wittgenstein's Poker, p. 28; March 28, 2004, Gabriel Schoenfeld, "The American Opening," p. 15.

Observer, April 15, 2001, Philip Hensher, "Take That Thesis Back, Karl, or I'll Deck You."

Publishers Weekly, January 15, 2001, John F. Baker, The Great Poker Battle, p. 16; October 1, 2001, review of Wittgenstein's Poker, p. 45; December 8, 2003, review of Bobby Fischer Goes to War, p. 52, and Ron Hogan, "Cold War Games," p. 53. Smithsonian, April, 2002, Paul Trachtman, "Wittgenstein's Ghost," p. 123.

Spectator, April 28, 2001, Anthony Gottlieb, review of Wittgenstein's Poker, p. 32; January 24, 2004, David Caute, "The Winner Who Quit," pp. 30-31.

Sunday Times (London, England), April 15, 2001, Simon Blackburn, "Wittgenstein and Popper Met Only Once, but More than Philosophical Sparks Flew," p. 38.

Time, November 19, 2001, Lev Grossman, "Pokers Wild," p. 141; March 15, 2004, Lev Grossman, "The Trouble with Genius," p. 79.

USA Today, March 3, 2004, Stephen J. Lyons, "BobbyFischer: Real Thriller with All the Right Moves." Wall Street Journal, March 4, 2004, Roger Lowenstein, "A Crackpot with All the Right Moves," section D, p. 10.

Washington Post Book World, January 20, 2002, Mark Edmundson, "Brain Storm," p. 8.

ONLINE

David Higham Associates Web site,http://www.davidhigham.co.uk/ (October 22, 2004), "John Eidinow."

National Public Radio Web site,http://www.npr.org/ (March 14, 2004), "Bobby Fischer Goes to War: Book Recounts Epic 1972 World Championship Chess Match."*