Charles Preston

Charles Preston, Crossword Puzzle Editor of USA Today and Dow Jones's National Observer for over a decade, is a distinguished crossword puzzle expert. He is also America’s foremost acrostic expert.

He has compiled more than 100 puzzle books and a number of best-selling anthologies of cartoons. Some of his best-sellers include: “Puzzle Treasury,” “Crossword Connoisseur,” “Puzzles in Large Type,” and "Quote Acrostic Favorites." Charles Preston edited the Quote Acrostic puzzles for forty years.

Mr. Preston is a puzzle master syndicated by the Tribune Content Agency and his work appears in dozens of leading newspapers and magazines across the country, including the Chicago Tribune, Newsday, and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Born in New York, he attended Columbia University and has a master's in linguistics.