Stuart Berg Flexner

Stuart Berg Flexner (1928–1990) was a lexicographer, editor and author, noted for his books on the origins of American words and expressions, including I Hear America Talking and Listening to America; as co-editor of the Dictionary of American Slang and as chief editor of the Random House Dictionary, Second Edition.^[1]

Flexner was the son of clothing retailer David Flexner and Gertrude, née Berg.^[2] He was twice married, first to Miriam Bogen and then to Doris Louise Hurcomb.

• How to Increase Your Word Power (1971)
• Family Word Finder: A New Thesaurus of Synonyms and Antonyms in Dictionary Form (1975)
• I Hear America Talking: An Illustrated Treasury of American Words and Phrases (1976)
• Listening to America: An Illustrated History of Words and Phrases from our Lively and Splendid Past (1982)
• Dictionary of American Slang, with Harold Wentworth (editions 1960, 1967, 1975)
• Oxford American Dictionary, with Eugene H. Ehrlich, Gorton Carruth, Joyce M. Hawkins (1980)
• The Random House Thesaurus, with Jess Stein (1984)
• The Pessimist's Guide To History : An Irresistible Compendium Of Catastrophes, Barbarities, Massacres And Mayhem From The Big Bang To The New Millennium, with Doris Flexner (1992) 2nd edition (2000) 3rd edition (2008)
• The Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged, Second Edition, editor (1987)
• Wise Words and Wives' Tales: The Origins, Meanings and Time-Honored Wisdom of Proverbs and Folk Sayings Olde and New, (1993)
• Speaking Freely: A Guided Tour of American English from Plymouth Rock to Silicon Valley, with Anne H. Soukhanov (1997)

• 1987 audio interview with Stuart Flexner at Wired for Books.org by Don Swaim

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