These authors have written popular (trade) books that are a major influence on statistical literacy. 

•   Joel Best (shown above) has written on the production of statistics as a social process.  

•   Howard Wainer has written on statistics and graphs.

•   Michael Blastland has written on statistical innumeracy in the UK.

•   Gerd Gigerenzer has written on risk and conditional probability.

•   Jane Miller has written on the use and misuse of English in writing about numbers.

•   John Allen Paulos has written on innumeracy in various forms.

•   Gerald Bracey has written extensively on education and education research.

SEVEN FEATURED POPULAR AUTHORS
BEST	Blastland	WAINER	PAULOS	GIGERENZER	MILLER ..	BRACEY
RECOMMENDED INTRO POPULAR BOOKS
Joel Best (2002), Damned Lies and Statistics Victor Cohn (1989), News and Numbers Howard Wainer (2005), Graphic Discovery: A Trout in the Milk and Other Adventures. Darrell Huff (1954), How To Lie with Statistics John Paulos (1988), Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences				Michael Blastland (2007), The Tiger that Isn't Joel Best (2004), More Damned Lies and Statistics Howard Wainer (2000), Visual Revelations Edward Tufte (1995), Visual Explanations Gerald Bracey (2006), Reading Educational Research
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