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David W. Maurer

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The United States

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male

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Nonfiction, Social Sciences, True Crime

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Date of Birth: 1906
Date of Death: 1981

David Warren Maurer was a professor of linguistics at the University of Louisville from 1937 to 1972, and an author of numerous studies of the language of the American underworld.

Maurer received a doctorate from the Ohio State University in Comparative Literature in 1935. He spent much of his academic career studying the language of criminals, drug addicts, and other marginal subcultures. He died on his farm outside Louisville from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

"The Big Con" is Maurer's most popular and perhaps most important book. It was originally published in 1940 by Bobbs-Merrill. The source material for it came from Maurer corresponding, interviewing, and informally chatting with hundreds of under...more

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Books by David W. Maurer

Average rating: 3.82 · 260 ratings · 45 reviews · 8 distinct works

	The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man by David W. Maurer, Luc Sante (Foreword by) 3.80 avg rating — 243 ratings — published 1940 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Kentucky Moonshine 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1975 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Dying Place 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1986	My rating:
	Whiz Mob 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The American Confidence Man, 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1974	My rating:
	Language Of The Underworld 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Sagishi Nyūmon: Damashi No Tensaitachi Sono Kareinaru Teguchi by David W Maurer, David W. Maurer (原著), 山本光伸 (翻訳) 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Some Expressions from Herman Melville by C. Merton Babcock, David W. Maurer 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating: