JULIAN LADERMAN, Ph.D. (New York) is a retired applied mathematics professor (Lehman College, CUNY). His first two books, A Bridge to Simple Squeezes and A Bridge to Inspired Declarer Play won the American Bridge Teachers' Association Book of the Year award in 2006 and 2009. For many years he wrote the bridge column for The Bronx Journal. His recent book on the history of bridge, Bumblepuppy Days, received the Alan Truscott Memorial Award from the International Bridge Press Association.
