asıl adı clifton fadiman(1904-1999) olan amerikalı yazar. vecizeleri birçok gazete ve dergide basılmıştır. en güzeli ve en ünlüsü ise klasiklerle ilgili söylediğidir.
"when you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before."
kitapları;
*Reading I've Liked: Presented with an Informal Prologue and Various Commentaries (1941, British edition 1946)
*Party of One (1955)
*The American Treasury 1455-1955 (1955, ed.)
*Any Number Can Play (1957)
*Fantasia Mathematica (1958, ed.)
*Lifetime Reading Plan (1960, co-author)
*Enter, Conversing (1962)
*Mathematical Magpie (1962, ed.)
*Wally the Wordworm (1964)
*The World Treasury of Children's Literature (1984, ed.)
*The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes (1985, ed.)
*The World of the Short Story, A 20th Century Collection (1986, ed.)
*Treasury of the Encyclopedia Britannica (1992, ed.)
