Barbara Ann Kipfer
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
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