Editing Howard Lederer (section)

==Early life and family==
Lederer was born in 1964 in [[Concord, New Hampshire]]<ref name="PokerNewsbio">{{Cite web |title=Howard Lederer |url=http://www.pokernews.com/poker-players/howard-lederer/ |access-date=May 7, 2013 |website=PokerNews.com}}</ref> and was introduced to card games at a young age by his family. As a child, Lederer's father also taught him to play [[chess]]. As a teenager, Lederer developed an interest in playing the game competitively.<ref name="Bluff06">{{Cite news |date=January 2006 |title=Howard Lederer:The Professor of Poker |url=http://www.bluff.com/magazine/howard-lederer-the-professor-of-poker-10556/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131122035402/http://www.bluff.com/magazine/howard-lederer-the-professor-of-poker-10556 |archive-date=November 22, 2013 |access-date=May 8, 2013 |work=[[Bluff (magazine)|Bluff]]}}</ref> Lederer's sister, [[Annie Duke]], is also a professional poker player. His father, [[Richard Lederer]], is an author, linguist and a former educator at [[St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire)|St. Paul's School]]. His other sister, [[Katy Lederer]], is also an author.<ref name="Cheney">{{Cite news |last=Cheney |first=Dina |title=Flouting Convention, Part II: Annie Duke Finds her Place at the Poker Table |url=http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/jul04/features4.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624102149/http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/jul04/features4.php |archive-date=June 24, 2016 |access-date=May 9, 2013 |work=[[Columbia College Today]]}}</ref><ref name="Moe">{{Cite news |last=Moe |first=Al  |date=January 10, 2006 |title=Legends of Poker: Howard Lederer |url=http://www.pokernews.com/news/2006/01/legends-poker-howard-lederer.htm |access-date=May 1, 2013 |work=[[Poker News]]}}</ref><ref name="PokerListingsHoward">{{Cite web |title=About Howard Lederer |url=http://www.pokerlistings.com/poker-player_howard-lederer |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160419061235/http://www.pokerlistings.com/poker-player_howard-lederer |archive-date=April 19, 2016 |access-date=April 30, 2013 |website=PokerListings.com}}</ref> His father is [[Jewish]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lederer |first=Katy |date=February 24, 2010 |title=Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Px1Ruu-62jIC&pg=PA88 |access-date=April 4, 2024 |publisher=Crown |isbn=978-0-307-56608-9 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="JewishJournal">{{Cite web |last=Pearlman |first=Karen |date=May 30, 2010 |title=Hungry for Words |url=https://www.sdjewishjournal.com/sdjj/june-2010/hungry-for-words/ |access-date=April 4, 2024 |website=San Diego Jewish Journal |language=en-US}}</ref> while his mother was a [[gentile]].<ref name="JewishJournal" /> He was not raised Jewish.<ref name="JewishJournal" />