Ralph Keyes
American author of books on language and writing; wrote on Mailer's coinages 'fug' and 'factoid.'
Ralph Keyes is an American author of books on language and the writing life (The Writer’s Book of Hope, Euphemania). His 2021 Literary Hub piece When in Need of the Right Word, Great Writers Simply Make Them Up discusses Mailer’s coinages “fug” (from The Naked and the Dead) and “factoid” (from Marilyn).