Stanley Newman

Stanley Newman is an American puzzle creator, editor and publisher. Newman's puzzle career started after he won the inaugural U.S. Open Crossword Championship in 1982, and he has been editor for the Newsday Sunday crossword puzzle since 1988, and editor of the Newsday daily crossword puzzle since 1992.

His puzzles have appeared regularly in Prevention, People, Sport, and Business Week magazines. Newman is the author or editor of more than 200 books and has organized and conducted many puzzle and trivia events in the United States, including four seminars at the Smithsonian Institution and, in 2007, the first crossword tournament ever held at Yale University.

Newman lives in Massapequa Park, New York with his wife and has three grown children.