Paul Dickson

"For the football player of the same name see Paul Dickson (football player)."

Paul Dickson (born in Yonkers, NY) is a freelance writer of more than 45 non-fiction books, mostly on (American) English language and popular culture. He has written many articles on a wide variety of subjects. He is a founding member and former president of Washington Independent Writers and a member of the National Press Club. [cite web|url=http://pauldicksonbooks.com/bio.htm|title="Paul Dickson Biography"] [cite web|url=http://wordsmith.org/chat/dickson.html|title="A Chat With Paul Dickson", Wordsmith Chat, Sep 26, 2006] [cite web|url=http://www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/AuthorBiography.aspx?AuthorId=85|title="Paul Dickson, Washington Journalist", The Globalist] Books include:
* "Think Tanks" (1971)
* "The New Official Rules", Addison-Wesley; (September 1990), ISBN 978-0201550900
* "Dickson's Word Treasury: A Connoisseur's Collection of Old and New, Weird and Wonderful, Useful and Outlandish Words," John Wiley & Sons Inc; Revised edition (March 1992), ISBN 978-0471551683
* "What's in a Name?: Reflections of an Irrepressible Name Collector", Merriam-Webster; (October 1996), ISBN 978-0877796138
* "Slang! The Topic-by-Topic Dictionary of Contemporary American Lingoes" (1990) (updated and expanded, 1998)
* "The New Dickson Baseball Dictionary", Harvest Books (February 15, 1999), ISBN 978-0156005807
* "Slang: The Topical Dictionary of Americanisms", Walker & Company (October 3, 2006), ISBN 978-0802715319
* "Sputnik: The Shock of the Century", Walker & Company (June 26, 2007), ISBN 978-0802713650

External links

* [http://pauldicksonbooks.com/ pauldicksonbooks.com]
* [http://www.pritzkermilitarylibrary.org/events/2005-02-11-paulDicksonThomasAllen.jsp Interview] on "The Bonus Army" at the Pritzker Military Library
* [http://toastsbook.com The Official Toast Book Website]

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