Ben Zimmer

Benjamin Zimmer (born 1971) is an American linguist, lexicographer, and language commentator. He is a language columnist for The Wall Street Journal and contributing editor for The Atlantic. He was formerly a language columnist for The Boston Globe and The New York Times Magazine, and editor of American dictionaries at Oxford University Press. Zimmer was also an executive editor of Vocabulary.com and VisualThesaurus.com.

Ben Zimmer
Zimmer in 2024
Born
Benjamin Zimmer

1971 (age 5253)
Education
  • Yale University
  • University of Chicago
Occupations
  • Linguist
  • lexicographer
Children1
Parent
RelativesCarl Zimmer (brother)
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