Bergen Evans

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Bergen Evans (1904 – 1978), was an American lexicographer and educator. An English professor, Evans became known as the question supervisor, or "authority" for the $64,000 Question. Books by him include Word A Day Vocabulary Builder (1963) and the annotated Dictionary of Quotations (1993).

He is also highly regarded as one of the early proponents of a movement that later came to be known as that of the skeptics and to that effect had written two of the earliest and most important works in the field, The Natural History of Nonsense (1946) and The Spoor of Spooks and Other Nonsense (1954).