Editing Thomas Schelling (section)

===Personal life and death ===
Schelling was married to Corinne Tigay Saposs from 1947 to 1991, with whom he had four sons. Later in 1991 he married Alice M. Coleman, who brought two sons to the marriage; they became his stepsons.<ref>{{cite web |title=Thomas C. Schelling |url=http://www.nndb.com/people/332/000116981/ |work=The Notable Names Database |year=2008 |access-date=2008-11-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/11/business/american-and-israeli-share-nobel-prize-in-economics.html|title=American and Israeli Share Nobel Prize in Economics|last=Uchitelle|first=Louis|date=2005-10-11|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-11-16|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

Schelling died on December 13, 2016, in [[Bethesda, Maryland]], from complications following a hip fracture at the age of 95.<ref name=":1" />

Schelling's family auctioned his Nobel award medal, fetching $187,000. They donated this money to the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]], an American 501 nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation. Alice Schelling said her late husband had credited ''[[Smoky the Cowhorse]]'' by [[Will James (artist)|Will James]], the winner of the [[Newbery Medal]] in 1927, as the most influential book he had read.<ref>Levin, Sala (June 8, 2018). [http://terp.umd.edu/a-golden-opportunity/#.Wx-RbtMvzXS Family of Late UMD Professor Auctions Nobel Medal to Fight Hate]. http://terp.umd.edu/</ref>