Career
With Henry Rathvon and Emily Cox, he wrote the crossword for the Boston Globe. Hook began constructing crosswords at age 14, when he sent a rebuttal crossword to Eugene T. Maleska. Maleska"s crossword contained the hidden message:
In 1980, Hook joined the staff of Games.
Stanley Newman"s official website has described one of Hook"s puzzles as "one of the toughest crosswords (Newman) has ever published".
Matt Gaffney, the crossword constructor for Slate.com, described meeting Hook as being like "meeting Elvis". He died on October 27, 2015, after a long illness.