A Synthesizing Mind A Memoir from the Creator of Multiple Intelligences Theory A Memoir from the Creator of Multiple Intelligences Theory

Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education and an adjunct professor of psychology at Harvard University; an adjunct professor of neurology at the Boston School of Medicine; and the codirector of Project Zero at Harvard University. The recipient of many honors, including 16 honorary degrees, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and a MacArthur Prize Fellowship, Gardner is the author of 18 books and several hundred articles. In 1990 he became the first American to receive the University of Louisville's Grawemeyer Award in education. Married to psychologist Ellen Winner and the father of four children, Gardner lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.