Jesse Sheidlower

Jesse Sheidlower}} (born August 5, 1968) is a lexicographer, editor, author, and programmer. He is past president of the American Dialect Society, was the project editor of the Random House ''Dictionary of American Slang'', and is the author of ''The F-Word'', a history of the word "fuck"; he is also a former editor-at-large at the Oxford English Dictionary. ''New York Magazine'' named him one of the 100 smartest people in New York, and he serves as a judge for the annual "literary-celeb-studded" Council of Literary Magazines and Presses spelling bee. He is currently an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University.

Sheidlower was a language consultant for Amazon's adaptation of Philip K. Dick's ''The Man in the High Castle'', and in January 2021, he launched the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction, a website tracing the origin of terms in science fiction literature. Provided by Wikipedia