PAXTON, John 1923-

PERSONAL: Born August 23, 1923; married Joan Thorne, 1950; children: Nicholas, Jonathy (daughter). Ethnicity: "English."

ADDRESSES: Home—Moss Cottage, Hardway, Bruton, Somerset BA10 0LN, England.

CAREER: Millfield School, Street, England, economics teacher and department head, 1952-63; Statesman's Year-Book, London, England, assistant editor, 1963-68, deputy editor, 1968-69, editor, 1969-90; writer, 1990—.

MEMBER: Society of Authors, West Country Writers' Association (chair, 1993-95).

WRITINGS:

(With A. E. Walsh) Trade in the Common Market Countries, Hutchinson (London, England), 1965.

(With A. E. Walsh) The Structure and Development of the Common Market, Hutchinson (London, England), 1968, Taplinger (New York, NY), 1969, 2nd edition published as Into Europe: The Structure and Development of the Common Market, 1972, 3rd edition published as The Developing Common Market: The Structure of the EEC in Theory and in Practice, Westview Press (Boulder, CO), 1976.

(With A. E. Walsh) Trade and Industrial Resources of the Common Market and EFTA Countries: A Comparative Statistical Analysis, Garnstone Press (London, England), 1970.

(With John Wroughton) Smuggling, Macmillan (London, England), 1971.

(Editor) Dictionary of Abbreviations, Rowman & Littlefield (Totowa, NJ), 1974, published as The Penguin Dictionary of Abbreviations, Penguin (New York, NY), 1989, also published as Everyman's Dictionary of Abbreviations, Dent (London, England), 1974, 2nd edition, 1986.

World Legislatures, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1974, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1975.

(Editor, with Chris Cook) European Political Facts, 1918-1973, Macmillan (London, England), 1975, Facts on File (New York, NY), 1978, revised edition published as European Political Facts, 1918-1990, 1992, revised edition published as European Political Facts, 1789-1996, three volumes, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1997, revised edition published as European Political Facts of the Twentieth Century, 2001.

(With A. E. Walsh) Competition Policy: European and International Trends and Practices, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1975.

(Editor) The Statesman's Year-Book World Gazetteer, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1975, 4th edition, 1991.

The Developing Common Market, Macmillan (London, England), 1976.

A Dictionary of the European Communities, Macmillan (London, England), 1977, 2nd edition, 1982.

(Editor, with Chris Cook) Commonwealth Political Facts, Facts on File (New York, NY), 1979.

(Editor, with Sheila Fairfield) A Calendar of Creative Man, Facts on File (New York, NY), 1980.

(General editor) New Illustrated Everyman's Encyclopaedia, 1983.

Companion to Russian History, Facts on File (New York, NY), 1984.

Companion to the French Revolution, Facts on File (New York, NY), 1988.

(Editor) The Statesman's Year-Book Historical Companion, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1988.

(With Geoffrey Payton) The Penguin Dictionary of Proper Names, Viking (New York, NY), 1991.

(With S. H. Steinberg) Historical Tables, 58 B.C.-1990 A.D., 12th edition, Macmillan (London, England), 1991.

European Communities, American Bibliographical Center-Clio Press (Santa Barbara, CA), 1992.

Encyclopedia of Russian History, American Bibliographical Center-Clio Press (Santa Barbara, CA), 1993.

The Penguin Encyclopedia of Places, Penguin (New York, NY), 1998.

Calendar of World History, H. W. Wilson (Bronx, NY), 1998.

Imperial Russia: A Reference Handbook, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 2000.

A Dictionary of Financial Abbreviations, Taylor & Francis (London, England), 2002.

Leaders of Russia and the Soviet Union, Taylor & Francis (London, England), in press.

Contributor to periodicals.