——.Penguin Books How to Lie with Statistics Darrell Huff was born in 1913 in lowa, and grew up there and in California. He received his B.A. (‘With Distinction’ and election to Phi Beta Kappa) and M.A. degrees from the State University of lowa, where he did additional graduate work in social psychology, including work in statistics and mental testing. He has been associate or managing editor of several magazines, such as Look and Better Homes & Gardens, but for nearly twenty years he has been a free-lance writer of articles and occasional short stories for many magazines, among them Harper's, Saturday Evening Post, Esquire and the New York Times Magazine. He and his wife, also a writer, have lived in Spain, Mallorca, Italy, France, Greece, Germany, Denmark and in the United States. Much of Darrell Huff's writing has to do with mathematics and his book How to Take a Chance has also been published in Penguins. In 1963 he was awarded a National School Bell Award for his work. UNA 07 003 164 9With pictures by Mel Calman