Hugh Rawson's popular books on language include Rawson's Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Double talk, Wicked Words, and Devious Derivations.
With Margaret Miner, he also has compiled and annotated The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations, The New International Dictionary of Quotations, A Dictionary of Quotations from the Bible, and A Dictionary of Quotations from Shakespeare.
A former director of Penguin Reference Books in the U.S. as well as editor of the Bulletin of The Authors Guild, Hugh Rawson lives in Roxbury, Connecticut.
