Paul Dickson

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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.[1] [2] [3]

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

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[edit] References

  1. ^ "Paul Dickson Biography".
  2. ^ "A Chat With Paul Dickson", Wordsmith Chat, Sep 26, 2006.
  3. ^ "Paul Dickson, Washington Journalist", The Globalist.