{{Short description|American writer and lexicographer}} {{Infobox person | birth_name = Albert Hodges Morehead, Jr. | image = Albert Hodges Morehead.jpg | caption = Morehead {{circa}} 1940–1950 | birth_date = {{Birth date|1909|8|7|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[Taylor County, Georgia]], US {{citation needed|date=May 2014}} <!--see TALK#Birthplace--> | death_date = {{death date and age|1966|10|5|1909|8|7|mf=y}} | death_place = [[New York City]], US | occupation = Encyclopedist, [[contract bridge|bridge]] writer | spouse = {{marriage|Loy Claudon |1939}} | relatives = [[Loveman Noa]], uncle | children = 2, including [[Philip David Morehead]] }} '''Albert Hodges Morehead, Jr.''' (August 7, 1909 – October 5, 1966) was a writer for ''[[The New York Times]]'', a [[Contract bridge|bridge]] player, a [[lexicographer]], and an author and editor of reference works.<ref name=obit/><ref name=ACBLhof>{{cite web |work=Hall of Fame |title=Morehead, Albert |url=http://web5.acbl.org/about-acbl/hall-of-fame/members/morehead-albert |publisher=ACBL |accessdate=2014-12-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308091933/http://web5.acbl.org/about-acbl/hall-of-fame/members/morehead-albert/ |archive-date=2016-03-08 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=cb>{{cite book |title=Current Biography |year=1954 |publisher=[[H.W. Wilson Company]] |isbn=9780824201210 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XYgYAAAAIAAJ }} {{full citation needed|date=February 2015}}</ref>{{clarify|date=February 2015|reason=link target is Google Books bibliographic data that does not match the given title or year}}
==Early years==
Morehead was born in Flintstone, [[Taylor County, Georgia]]{{citation needed|date=May 2014}} on August 7, 1909, to Albert Hodges Morehead I (1854–1922) and Bianca Noa (1874–1945). Albert senior was a choral conductor.<ref name=cb/> Bianca's brother was [[Loveman Noa]], the Naval hero. Albert's siblings were: Kerenhappuch Turner Morehead (1905–1907) who died as an infant; and James Turner Morehead (1906–1988). His parents lived in [[Lexington, Kentucky]], but were spending their summer in [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] at the time of his birth. The family moved to [[Chattanooga, Tennessee]], after the death of Albert's father in 1922 in [[Baylor County, Texas]].
He attended the [[Baylor School]] and later [[Harvard University]]. In 1939, Albert Morehead married Loy Claudon (1910–1970) of Illinois, and the couple had two children: [[Philip David Morehead]] (b. 1942) and Andrew Turner Morehead (b. 1940). He was a noted bridge partner of U.S. General [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]].<ref name=bio>{{cite news |title=A Tribute to Albert H. Morehead 1909–1966: Games expert and Lexicographer |url=http://www.patphil.com/ahm.html |publisher=patphil.com (daughter-in-law Patricia and son [[Philip Morehead]]) |accessdate=2007-08-21 }}</ref>
==Journalism==
Through high school and college, Morehead worked on the ''Lexington Herald'' (now the ''[[Lexington Herald-Leader|Herald-Leader]]''), the ''[[Chattanooga Times]]'', the ''[[Chicago Daily News]]'', ''[[The Plain Dealer]]'', and the ''Town Crier'' of [[Newton, Massachusetts]]. He later worked for ''[[The New York Times]]''.
In 1944 he published 36 articles, under four pseudonyms, in ''[[Redbook]]'' magazine, and in 1951 published 29 articles in ''[[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]]''' magazine. From 1945 to 1947, he was the puzzle and quiz editor for ''[[Coronet (magazine)|Coronet]]'' magazine and was the consulting editor for games in ''[[Esquire magazine]]''.
He was author, co-author or editor of over 60 books, including books on games and puzzles, and a number of reference works, some of which are still in print. He edited [[W. Somerset Maugham]]'s ''Great Novelists and their Novels'' (Winston, 1948) and [[Fulton Oursler]]'s ''The Greatest Story Ever Told'' (Doubleday, 1949).
Finally, he served as Vice-president of the [[John C. Winston Company]], a book publisher, for three years.<ref name=bio/>
==Publications==
* {{cite book |author-mask= with|last1 = Morehead |first1= Albert |last2 = Culbertson |first2= Ely |author-link2= Ely Culbertson |last3= Mott-Smith|first3= Geoffrey|title= Culbertson's Hoyle: The New Encyclopedia of Games, with Official Rules |year= 1950}} * {{cite book |author-mask= 1 |last = Morehead |first= Albert |title= Morehead on Bidding |publisher= The MacMillan Company |location= New york |edition= 1st |year= 1964|lccn= 63-17309 }} * {{cite book |author-mask= with |last1 = Morehead |first1= Albert |last2= Frey |first2= Richard L.|author-link2= Richard L. Frey|title= Morehead on Bidding |publisher= Simon & Schuster |location= New York |edition= 2nd|year= 1974 |lccn= 73-21053|sbn= 671-21699-6}}
==Death==
Morehead died of cancer in 1966 in [[Manhattan]].<ref name=obit>{{cite news |title=Albert H. Morehead, 56, [sic] Dead; Ex-Bridge Editor of The Times. Championship Player Was Also Lexicographer and Encyclopedia Compiler |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1966/10/06/archives/albert-h-morehead-56-dead-exbridge-editor-of-the-times-championship.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 6, 1966|page=47|accessdate=2021-01-06 }}</ref>
==Bridge accomplishments==
===Honors=== * [[ACBL Hall of Fame]], Blackwood Award 1996 * ACBL Honorary Member of the Year 1946
===Awards=== * IBPA Bridge Book of the Year 1966
===Wins=== * [[Ely Culbertson#Anglo-American matches|Schwab Cup]] (1) 1934
===Runners-up=== * [[North American Bridge Championships]] (1) ** [[Reisinger|Chicago]] (now Reisinger) (1) 1935
==References== {{Reflist |25em |refs=}}
== Literature == * Morehead, Albert and [[Geoffrey Mott-Smith]] (1950). ''Culbertson's Hoyle: The New Encyclopedia of Games, with Official Rules''. Greystone Press.
==External links== * {{ACBLhof|morehead-albert}} * [http://www.patphil.com/ahm.html "A Tribute to Albert H. Morehead"] subsite at [[Philip Morehead|Phil & Pat Morehead]] * {{LCAuth|n83139541|Albert H. Morehead|54|}}
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