John Lintner - Personal Life

Personal Life

John Lintner was born to John Virgil and Pearl Lintner in Lone Elm, KS on February 9, 1916. From his first marriage to Sylvia Change, he had two children, John Howland and Nancy Chance. From his second marriage to Eleanor Hodges, he had a stepson, Allan Hodges. He died of a heart attack while driving on June 8, 1983 in Cambridge, MA. Had he lived until 1990, he certainly would have shared the Nobel prize in Economics that year. It was for portfolio theory. You have to be living to receive a Nobel.

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