Personal Life
Commoner and first wife, the former Gloria Gordon, a St. Louis psychologist, married after his service in World War II. They had two children, Frederic and Lucy Commoner, and one granddaughter. Following a divorce, in 1980 he married Lisa Feiner, whom he had met in the course of her work as a public-TV producer.
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