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Dorothy Hayden Truscott is an American bridge player and author. She was born on November 3, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. She is the daughter of bridge player and teacher, Harold Hayden. Truscott is a four-time world champion, having won the World Women's Pairs Championship in 1957, the World Mixed Pairs Championship in 1958, the World Women's Teams Championship in 1959, and the World Mixed Teams Championship in 1960. She is also a two-time winner of the prestigious Reisinger Board-a-Match Teams Championship. Truscott is the author of several books on bridge, including the classic Bridge Conventions, Defensive Play, and Bridge for Bright Beginners. She is also a frequent contributor to bridge magazines and has written a syndicated bridge column for the Los Angeles Times. Truscott is a member of the American Contract Bridge League Hall of Fame and the World Bridge Federation Hall of Fame. She is also a recipient of the ACBL's Honorary Member Award. As of 2021, Dorothy Hayden Truscott's net worth is estimated to be roughly $1 million.

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1972

She graduated from Smith College and briefly taught mathematics in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Her first two marriages ended in divorce. Her third, in 1972, was to Alan Truscott, bridge journalist for The New York Times.

1966

Truscott is the only female player to have won a medal in the World Open Pairs Championship, where she won a bronze medal in 1966. She won a silver medal at the Bermuda Bowl in 1965 and bronze medals at Women's Team Olympiads in 1968, 1972 and 1976 and the World Women Pairs Championship in 1962 and 1974.

She wrote two books on bridge that became best-sellers: Bid Better, Play Better and Winning Declarer Play first published in 1966 and 1969 respectively; each was reprinted several times. She was a contributing editor to several editions of the Official Encyclopedia of Bridge (Alan Truscott, Executive Editor) and wrote two books with Alan: Teach Yourself Basic Bidding in 1976 and The New York Times Bridge Book in 2002. She also published a historical novel in 2002, Hell Gate, about early Dutch settlers in Harlem.

1965

In 1965 (as Dorothy Hayden), Truscott became the second woman to play for North America or the United States in the Bermuda Bowl world championship tournament for open teams. (As for Helen Sobel in 1957, her team finished second to Italy.) She was one of the main accusers in a major bridge scandal that involved allegations of cheating brought against the British pair of Terence Reese and Boris Schapiro.

1959

She won her first "national championships" in 1959 as Dorothy Hayden, the Mixed Pairs with John Crawford and the Women Pairs with Betty Goldberg. She won four world titles as a player: the Venice Cup in 1974, 1976 and 1978, and the World Women Team Olympiad in 1980. She was the non-playing captain of the winning American Venice Cup team in 1989.

1925

Dorothy Hayden Truscott (November 3, 1925 – July 4, 2006) was an American bridge player, winner of four world championships and the top-ranked woman for many years. In the late 1960s, she authored two books on the game and later co-authored two with her husband Alan Truscott. Her 1966 book, Bid Better, Play Better is considered a classic and was progressively updated.