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Kory Stamper

Kory Stamper

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KORY STAMPER is a lexicographer who has written dictionaries for nearly thirty years at Merriam-Webster, Cambridge Dictionaries, and Dictionary.com. She is the author of Word by Word. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, New York, and The Washington Post, and she blogs regularly on language and lexicography at www.korystamper.com.

Books by Kory Stamper

True Color

A kaleidoscopic journey through the secret history of hues—and the story of the obsessive genius behind the definitions of colors we use today, from the beloved author of Word by Word

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