John Anthony Bowden Cuddon (2 June 1928 – 12 March 1996), was an English author, dictionary writer, and school teacher. He is known best for hisDictionary of Literary Terms (published in several editions), described by theTimes Educational Supplement as ‘scholarly, succinct, comprehensive and entertaining…an indispensable work of reference.’ Cuddon also wroteThe Macmillan Dictionary of Sport and Games, a two million-word account of most of the world's sports and games through history, as well as several novels, plays,travel books, and otherpublished works. Cuddon'sThe Owl's Watchsong was a study ofIstanbul.^[1]

Cuddon also edited two important anthologies ofsupernatural fiction –The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories andThe Penguin Book of Horror Stories (both 1984).

In his distinguished teaching career atEmanuel School in London, England, he taughtEnglish. He also coachedrugby andcricket.

Novels

A Multitude of Sins (1961)

Testament of Iscariot (1962)

The Acts of Darkness (1963)

The Six Wounds (1964)

The Bride of Battersea (1967)

Non-fiction

The Owl's Watchsong (1960)

The Companion Guide to Yugoslavia (1974)

A Dictionary of Literary Terms (1977)

The Macmillan Dictionary of Sport and Games (1980)

The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (1984) (editor)

The Penguin Book of Horror Stories (1984) (editor)

• Obituary:The Independent, 16 March 1996.
• Obituary:The Times, 15 March 1996.
• Cuddon, J. A. (1998). C.E. Preston (ed.).A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory (4th rev. ed.). Oxford: Blackwell Publ.ISBN 0-631-20271-4.

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