Darrell Huff is the author of popular books on statistics, most famously How to Lie with Statistics (1954) which was illustrated by Irving Gels .

Huff and Gels also collaborated on How to Take a Chance, while Huff's Cycles in your Life was illustrated by Anatol Kovarsky .

Huff was an editor at Look magazine, during which time he began writing detective stories with Henry Felsen.