Barbara Ann Kipfer

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Barbara Ann Kipfer (born 1954) is a linguist and lexicographer. She has written more than 50 books, including 14,000 Things to be Happy About (Workman), which has more than a million copies in print and has given rise to many Page-a-Day calendars.[1] She is the editor of Roget's International Thesaurus.

She holds a PhD and MPhil in Linguistics from the University of Exeter, a PhD in Archaeology from Greenwich University, an MA and PhD in Buddhist Studies from Akamai University, and a BS in physical education from Valparaiso University. She is a semantic curation specialist for Google. Kipfer has worked for such companies as Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, Reference.com; Answers.com, Ask Jeeves, Bellcore, Federated Media, General Electric Research, IBM Research, idealab, Knowledge Adventure, Mindmaker/Associative Computing, Textwise, Wang Electronic Publishing, and Alpha.

Works

Workman Publishing:

  • 14,000 Things to be Happy About
  • Instant Karma
  • 8,789 Words of Wisdom
  • The Wish List
  • 1,400 Things for Kids to be Happy About
  • Self-Meditation
  • The Order of Things: How Everything in the World Is Organized into Hierarchies, Structures, and Pecking Orders

Random House:

  • 4,000 Questions for Getting to Know Anyone and Everyone
  • Life of Language
  • Trivia Lovers’ Book of Lists

HarperCollins

  • Roget's International Thesaurus
  • Dictionary of American Slang

Kluwer Plenum:

  • Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology

Wiley/Blackwell:

  • Archaeologist's Fieldwork Companion
  • Dictionary of Artifacts

Wiley:

  • The Culinarian

Writer's Digest

  • Flip Dictionary
  • Roget's Thesaurus of Phrases

References

  1. thingstobehappyabout.com

External links


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