Flexner, Stuart Berg (1928–1990)

US lexicographer. He was co-author of the Dictionary of American Slang (1960), and became a Random House vice-president and editor-in-chief of its reference division, editing The Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition (1987).

He was born in Jacksonville, Illinois. After studying and teaching briefly at Cornell University, he moved to New York City, where he worked for several publishing firms before joining Random House. He also wrote several popular works on language, including How to Increase Your Word Power (1968), I Hear America Talking (1976), and Listening to America (1982).