Darrell Huff

Darrell Huff
Born(1913-07-15)July 15, 1913
Gowrie, Iowa
DiedJune 27, 2001(2001-06-27) (aged 87)
Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
Alma materUniversity of Iowa
Notable worksHow to Lie with Statistics
SpouseFrances Marie Nelson (m. 1937)
Children4 daughters

Darrell Huff (July 15, 1913 – June 27, 2001) was an American writer, and is best known as the author of How to Lie with Statistics (1954), the best-selling statistics book of the second half of the twentieth century.[1]

  1. ^ "How to Lie with Statistics remains the most popular statistics book ever written." J. M. Steele. Darrell Huff and Fifty Years of How to Lie with Statistics. Statistical Science, 20 (3), 2005, 205–209.