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.^{[1] [2] [3]} Dickson coined the term "word word".^[4] Dickson graduated from Wesleyan University in 1961. He resides in Garrett Park, Maryland.^[5]

Books include:

• Labels for Locals: What to Call People from Abilene to Zimbabwe, HarperCollins Publishers; (2006), ISBN 978-006088164
• 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
• Drunk: The Definitive Drinkers' Dictionary, Melville House (October, 2009), ISBN 978-1933633756

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[edit] 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
• Paul Dickson's books at Wikiquote

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