Marilyn vos Savant

Marilyn vos Savant (born August 11, 1946) is an American magazine columnist, author, lecturer, and playwright who rose to fame through her listing in the Guinness Book of World Records under "Highest IQ". Since 1986 she has written Ask Marilyn, a Sunday column in Parade magazine in which she answers questions from readers on a variety of subjects.

Works

• 1985 - Omni I.Q. Quiz Contest
• 1990 - Brain Building: Exercising Yourself Smarter (co-written with Leonore Fleischer)
• 1992 - Ask Marilyn
• 1993 - The World's Most Famous Math Problem: The Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem and Other Mathematical Mysteries
• 1994 - More Marilyn: Some Like It Bright!
• 1994 - "I've Forgotten Everything I Learned in School!": A Refresher Course to Help You Reclaim Your Education
• 1996 - Of Course I'm for Monogamy: I'm Also for Everlasting Peace and an End to Taxes
• 1996 - The Power of Logical Thinking: Easy Lessons in the Art of Reasoning?and Hard Facts about Its Absence in Our Lives
• 2000 - The Art of Spelling: The Madness and the Method
• 2002 - Growing Up: A Classic American Childhood

In addition to her published works, Marilyn has written a collection of humorous short stories called Short Shorts, a stage play called It Was Poppa's Will, and two novels: a satire of a dozen classical civilizations in history called The Re-Creation, and a futuristic political fantasy, as yet untitled.

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