Fred Richard Shapiro is an American academic and writer working as the editor of ''

The Yale Book of Quotations ''The Yale Book of Quotations'' is a quotations collection focusing on modern and American quotations. Edited by Fred R. Shapiro, it was published by Yale University Press in 2006 with a foreword by Joseph Epstein, . Prior to publication it was re ...

'', ''The Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations'', and several other books.

Education

Shapiro earned a

Bachelor of Science A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University o ...

degree from the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

, a Master of Library Science from the Catholic University of America, and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.

Career

Shapiro has published numerous articles on language, law, and information science, including "The Politically Correct United States Supreme Court and the Motherfucking Texas Court of Appeals: Using Legal Databases to Trace the Origins of Words and Quotations" and "Who Wrote the Serenity Prayer". He is an associate librarian and lecturer in legal research at

Yale Law School Yale Law School (Yale Law or YLS) is the law school of Yale University, a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was established in 1824 and has been ranked as the best law school in the United States by '' U.S. News & Worl ...

. His work in identifying sources of recent sayings is seen in ''The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs''.Doyle, Charles Clay,

Wolfgang Mieder Wolfgang Mieder (born 17 February 1944) is a retired professor of German and folklore at the University of Vermont, in Burlington, Vermont, USA, where he had taught for 50 years. He is a graduate of Olivet College (BA), the University of Michigan ...

, Fred R. Shapiro. 2012. ''The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs''. New Haven: Yale University Press.

References

External links

Meet the Editor of ''The Yale Book of Quotations''

Living people American writers American editors Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Catholic University of America alumni Harvard Law School alumni American legal scholars 1954 births {{US-editor-stub