Ely Culbertson Quotes

Ely Culbertson was born in Romania. He was an American contract bridge entrepreneur, writer, and personality dominant during the 1930s. He played a major role in the popularization of the new game and was widely regarded as "the man who made contract bridge". He was educated in Geneva and Paris. In 1929 he founded the magazine Bridge World and from the early 1930s played tournament Bridge, lectured and published books on Bridge, and became a syndicated Bridge columnist. He wrote Total Peace and Must We Fight Russia? His autobiography, The Strange Lives of One Man, was published in 1940.