KIPFER, Barbara Ann 1954-

PERSONAL: Born August 25, 1954, in La Porte, IN; daughter of Albert V. (a certified public accountant) and Dorothy Hinton; married Paul Magoulas (an editor); children: Kyle B. Kipfer. Ethnicity: "Caucasian." Education: Valparaiso University, B.S., 1978; University of Exeter, M.Phil., 1985, Ph.D. (linguistics) 1989; Greenwich University, Ph.D. (archaeology), 1998, M.A. (Buddhist studies), 2002. Politics: Democrat. Religion: Methodist.

ADDRESSES: Home—Milford, CT. Agent—c/o Author Mail, Workman Publishing Co., 708 Broadway, New York, NY 10003-9555. E-mail—bkipfer@earthlink.net.

CAREER: Vidette-Messenger, Valparaiso, IN, sports editor, 1976-79; Gary Post-Tribune, Gary, IN, news correspondent, 1979; Chicago Tribune, Chicago, IL, sports scoreboard editor, 1979; City of Valparaiso, assistant to the mayor, 1979-81; University of Houston, Houston, TX, director of word processing center, 1981-82; Laurence Urdang, Inc., assistant to the publisher, 1982; Yale University, New Haven, CT, editor of newsletter for school of organization and management, 1982-83; Wang Electronic Publishing, New York, NY, lexicographer, 1984-85; International Business Machines Corp., T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, lexicographer for lexical systems group, 1984-85; Bellcore, Morristown, NJ, lexicographer in artificial intelligence and information science research, 1988; General Electric Corporate Research, Schenectady, NY, lexicographer for artificial intelligence program, 1988-90; Philip Lief Group, New York, NY, lexicographer and senior editor, beginning 1990; independent lexicographer and part-time archaeologist. Ameritech Publishing, lexicographer, 1989. Member of Connecticut State House of Representatives, 1988; candidate for Connecticut State Senate, 1990; member of Milford Democratic Town Committee; member of Milford Pension and Retirement Board, 1987—.

MEMBER: European Association for Lexicography, Dictionary Society of North America, Association of Computational Linguistics, Milford Tennis Association, Milford Tennis Club, Milford Yacht Club.

WRITINGS:

EDITOR

Workbook on Lexicography: A Course for DictionaryUsers, University of Exeter Press (Exeter, England), 1984.

14,000 Things to Be Happy About, Workman Publishing (New York, NY), 1990.

Roget's Twenty-first Century Thesaurus in DictionaryForm: The Essential Reference for Home, School, or Offıce, Dell (New York, NY), 1992.

Random House Kid's Encyclopedia, Knowledge Adventure (La Crescenta, CA), 1993.

Twenty-first Manual of Style, Laurel (New York, NY), 1993.

Twenty-first Spelling Dictionary, Dell (New York, NY), 1993.

Twenty-first Synonym and Antonym Finder, Dell (New York, NY), 1993.

Sisson's Word and Expression Locater, Prentice-Hall (Tappan, NJ), 1994.

Bartlett's Book of Business Quotations, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1994.

Bartlett's Book of Love Quotations, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1994.

1,400 Things for Kids to Be Happy About: The HappyBook, Workman (New York, NY), 1994.

(With Robert L. Chapman) Dictionary of AmericanSlang, HarperCollins (New York), 1995, 3rd edition, 1998.

(With Charles Preston and Paul Magoulas) The USAToday Crossword Puzzle Dictionary, Hyperion (New York, NY), 1995.

(With Ed Strnad) The Optimist's/Pessimist's Guide to the Millennium, Berkley Publishing (New York, NY), 1996.

Webster's Twenty-first Century Large Print Dictionary, Delta (New York, NY), 1996.

The Order of Things: How Everything in the World IsOrganized into Hierarchies, Structures, and Pecking Orders, Random House (New York, NY), 1997.

The Wish List, Workman Publishing (New York, NY), 1997.

Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology, Kluwer Academic (New York, NY), 2000.

5,001 Things for Kids to Do, Plume (New York, NY), 2000.

The World of Order and Organization: How ThingsAre Arranged into Hierarchies, Structures, and Pecking Orders, Gramercy Books (New York, NY), 2000.

The Writer's Digest Flip Dictionary, Writer's Digest (Cincinnati, OH), 2000.

Something to Talk About (e-book), iUniverse.com (Lincoln, NE), 2000.

8,789 Words of Wisdom, Workman Publishing (New York, NY), 2001.

Roget's Thesaurus of Phrases, Writer's Digest Books (Cincinnati, OH), 2001.

Roget's International Thesaurus, 6th edition, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2001.

Roget's Descriptive Word Finder: A Dictionary/Thesaurus of Adjectives and Adverbs, Writer's Digest Books (Cincinnati, OH), 2003.

Karma, Dharma, Yoga, Tao, Workman Publishing (New York, NY), 2003.

Creator and editor of "The Best of 14,000 Things to Be Happy About Page-a-Day Calendars," Workman Publishing (New York, NY), beginning 1995.

Contributor to books, including The Dictionary and the Language Learner, edited by Anthony Cowie, Max Niemeyer Verlag (Tübingen, Germany), 1987. Contributor to periodicals, including Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America.

Kipfer's book 14,000 Things to Be Happy About was been published in Bulgarian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, and Swedish. The Wish List has been published in Japanese.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

American Antiquity, April, 2001, Mark Blackham, review of Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology, p. 378.

Antiquity, September, 2000, N. James and Simon Stoddart, review of Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology, p. 772.

Booklist, June 1, 2001, Donald Altschiller, review of The World of Order and Organization: How Things Are Arranged into Hierarchies, Structures, and Pecking Orders, p. 1920.

Library Journal, April 1, 1997, Debra Moore, review of The Order of Things: How Everything in the World Is Organized into Hierarchies, Structures, and Pecking Orders, p. 84; June 1, 2003, Marianne Orme, review of Roget's Descriptive Word Finder: A Dictionary/Thesaurus of Adjectives and Adverbs, p. 106.*