Paul Dickson

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

Paul Dickson (born in Yonkers, New York) 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] Dickson coined the term "word word".^[4] Dickson graduated from Wesleyan University in 1961.

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
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 978-0802715319
Sputnik: The Shock of the Century, Walker & Company (June 26, 2007), ISBN 978-0802713650