Paul Dickson
For the American football player, see Paul Dickson (American football).
Dickson in 2009.
Paul Dickson (born in Yonkers, New York) is a freelance writer of more than 50 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] Dickson coined the term "word word".[4]
For his published work on baseball, the Washington Post has described Dickson as "baseball's answer to Noah Webster or, at the very least, William Safire."[5]
Dickson graduated from Wesleyan University in 1961. He resides in Garrett Park, Maryland.[6]
Select Bibliography
- Think Tanks (1971)
- The Great American Ice Cream Book, Atheneum Books (1973)
- The New Official Rules, Addison-Wesley; (September 1990), ISBN 978-0-201-55090-0
- Slang! The Topic-by-Topic Dictionary of Contemporary American Lingoes (1990) (updated and expanded, 1998)
- 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 978-0-471-55168-3
- What's in a Name?: Reflections of an Irrepressible Name Collector, Merriam-Webster; (October 1996), ISBN 978-0-87779-613-8
- Labels for Locals: What to Call People from Abilene to Zimbabwe, Merriam-Webster; (1997), ISBN 0-87779-616-5 (Reissued Collins, 2006, ISBN 0-06-088164-X)
- The New Dickson Baseball Dictionary, Harvest Books (February 15, 1999), ISBN 978-0-15-600580-7
- The Bonus Army: An American Epic, with Thomas Allen, Walker & Company (December 1, 2004)
- Slang: The Topical Dictionary of Americanisms, Walker & Company (October 3, 2006), ISBN 978-0-8027-1531-9
- Sputnik: The Shock of the Century, Walker & Company (June 26, 2007), ISBN 978-0-8027-1365-0
- The Dickson Baseball Dictionary, W. W. Norton & Company (March, 2009), ISBN 978-0-393-06681-4
- Drunk: The Definitive Drinker's Dictionary, Melville House (October, 2009), ISBN 978-1-933633-75-6
- The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (pbk), W. W. Norton & Company (June, 2011), ISBN 978-0-393-34008-2
- Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick, Walker & Company (April 24, 2012), ISBN 0802717780
- Words from the White House: Words and Phrases Coined or Popularized by America's Presidents, Walker & Company (January 8, 2013), ISBN 0802743803
- Authorisms: Words Wrought by Writers Bloomsbury USA (April 22, 2014), ISBN 1620405407
References
- ↑ "Paul Dickson Biography".
- ↑ ""A Chat With Paul Dickson", Wordsmith Chat, Sep 26, 2006".
- ↑ ""Paul Dickson, Washington Journalist", The Globalist".
- ↑ The Oxford Companion to the English Language. Oxford University Press. 1992. p. 1127. ISBN 0-19-214183-X.
- ↑ "BOOK REVIEW: 'The Dickson Baseball Dictionary' - Washington Times". The Washingtion Times.
- ↑ Dickson, Paul (2006). Labels for Locals: What to Call People from Abilene to Zimbabwe. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 978-0-06-088164-1.
External links
- pauldicksonbooks.com
- Interview on The Bonus Army at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library
- The Official Toast Book Website
- Review of The Dickson Baseball Dictionary at Letters on Pages