Paul Dickson

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 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. Dickson coined the term "word word".

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."

Dickson graduated from Wesleyan University in 1961. He resides in Garrett Park, Maryland.

Select Bibliography

• Labels for Locals: What to Call People from Abilene to Zimbabwe, HarperCollins Publishers; (2006), ISBN 978-006088164
• 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
• 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
• 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 978-0-15-600580-7
• 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

External links

• pauldicksonbooks.com
• Interview on The Bonus Army at the Pritzker Military Library
• The Official Toast Book Website
• Review of The Dickson Baseball Dictionary at Letters on Pages