Quotable Talk | Kory Stamper

Kory Stamper made dictionary-writing surprisingly entertaining in Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, drawing on nearly three decades of defining words for Merriam-Webster, Cambridge Dictionaries and Dictionary.com. Her new book, True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color, moves onto ground an art museum audience will know well. It traces the oddly elaborate color definitions in Webster's Third New International Dictionary. It also gives credit to Margaret Noss Godlove, whose overlooked work also underpins the glossy Munsell Book of Color, one of the most widely used color standards. This author talk is part of Quotable, Sarasota Art Museum's annual series of writers and creatives.