Hugh Rawson

Hugh Rawson (September 12, 1936 - June 1, 2013) was an American editor and author. He was the director of Penguin USA’s reference books operations and, for 12 years, worked as the editor of the Bulletin of The Authors Guild. He wrote or co-wrote a dozen books, including ''Wicked Words: A Treasury of Curses, Insults, Put-Downs, and Other Formerly Unprintable Terms'' (1989), ''A Dictionary of Euphemisms & Other Doubletalk'' (1981), and ''The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2005).'' Provided by Wikipedia