Editing Stuart Berg Flexner (section)

==Bibliography==
* ''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)