Barbara Ann Kipfer (born 1954)

Barbara Ann Kipfer (born 1954) is a linguist and lexicographer. She has written more than 45 books, including 14,000 Things to be Happy About (Workman). Her website is http://www.thingstobehappyabout.com.

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 also from Akamai University, and a BS in physical education from Valparaiso University. She is lexicographer for WolframAlpha. Kipfer has worked for such companies as Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, Reference.com, Answers.com, Ask Jeeves, idealab, Mindmaker, General Electric Research, IBM Research, Wang, Bellcore (Telcordia), Cymfony, Textwise, and Knowledge Adventure.

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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
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
Ulysses Press:

201 Little Buddhist Reminders
1325 Buddhist Ways to Be Happy
Kluwer Plenum:

Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology
Blackwell:

Archaeologist's Fieldwork Companion
Dictionary of Artifacts
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