Bergen Evans biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Bergen Evans

Author Name:

Bergen Evans

Born As:

Bergen Baldwin Evans

Other Names:

Bergen Evans

Born:

19 Sep 1904

Died:

4 Feb 1978




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Lexicographer and educator                          
Selected Works:

Comfortable Words - 1962
A Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage, by Bergen Evans and Cornelia Evans  - 1957
Dictionary of Mythology, Mainly Classical - 1970
Dictionary of Quotations / collected and arranged and with comments by Bergen Evans - 1968
Fifty Essays, edited by Bergen Evans - 1936
The Life of Samuel Johnson; Boswel - 1740-1795 abridged, with an introd. by Bergen Evans - 1952
The Making of English - 1845-1923. With an introd. by Bergen Evans, and additional material and notes by Bergen Evans and Simeon Potter - 1967
The Natural History of Nonsense - 1946
The Psychiatry of Robert Burton, in consultation with George J. Mohr, M.D.  - 1944
The Spoor of Spooks, and Other Nonsense - 1954
The Word-A-Day Vocabulary Builder - 1963
Your Car is Made to Last, by Herman Bishop and Bergen Evans  - 1942.                          
                          
Became known as the question supervisor, for the $64,000 Question. Books by him include Word A Day Vocabulary Builder 1963, and the annotated Dictionary of Quotations - 1993.