- His younger brother R. Allen Gardner achieved his on renown as professor of comparative psychology who had succeeded in teaching American Sign Language to a chimpanzee.
- Children (second marriage): sons Jake, Rafferty.
- Won Broadway's 1986 Tony Award as author of Best Play winner "I'm Not Rappaport." He was also Tony-nominated in 1963 as author of Best Play nominee "A Thousand Clowns."
- Nominated for the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "Conversations with My Father".
- His 1992 play "Conversations with my Father" was based on the characters of both his grandfather Sol and father Herbert Goldberg (who changed surname to Gardner), both of whom had owned and bars on New York City's Canal Street in Chinatown.
- He was awarded the 1993 Drama-Logue Award for Writing for the play, "Conversations with My Father" in presented by the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson at the James A. Doolittle (University of California) Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
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