Paul McFedries (born 23 August 1959) is a Canadian author of more than 40 computer books that have sold 3 million copies worldwide.[1] He has been programming since he was a teenager in the mid-1970s, and is the president of Logophilia Limited, a technical writing company.[2] McFedries also runs and owns Wordspy.com, a website that tracks new words and phrases as they enter the language.[1]