Dr. Barbara Ann Kipfer is the author of 14,000 Things to be Happy About (Workman 1990, revised edition 2007 - more than one million copies in print) and the 13 Page-a-Day calendars based on it. She has also authored Self-Meditation, The Wish List, 1,400 Things for Kids to be Happy About, 8,789 Words of Wisdom, and Instant Karma for Workman Publishing. Her other books Roget's International Thesaurus Sixth Edition and Dictionary of American Slang (HarperCollins), 201 Little Buddhist Reminders and 1,325 Buddhist Ways to Be Happy (Ulysses Press), Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology (Springer), Word Nerd (Sourcebooks), Trivia Lovers' Lists of Nearly Everything in the Universe, How It Happens, 4,000 Questions for Getting to Know Anyone and Everyone, Consider This, and The Life of Language (Random House); Dictionary of Artifacts and The Archaeologist's Fieldwork Companion (Wiley-Blackwell), and Field Guide to Happiness: A Manual for Identifying Happiness in its Natural Habitat (Lyons Press). "The Order of Things" (Workman), "Phraseology" (Sourcebooks), and "Field Guide to Happiness for Women" (Lyons Press) are forthcoming.
Barbara holds a PhD and MPhil in Linguistics (University of Exeter), a PhD in Archaeology (Greenwich University), an MA (Greenwich University) and PhD in Buddhist Studies (Akamai University), and BS in physical education (Valparaiso University).
Dr. Kipfer is Chief Lexicographer for Dictionary.com (part of Ask/IAC). She has also worked for such companies as Answers.com, Ask Jeeves, Bellcore/Telcordia, Cymfony, General Electric Research, IBM Research, idealab, Knowledge Adventure, Mindmaker, and Textwise.
Barbara is a Registered Professional Archaeologist and has taught meditation. Her other website is Archaeology Wordsmith.
The site is managed and updated by Barbara Ann Kipfer and Paul Legan. All illustrations are custom-made for this site by Paul Meisel. The website design is by Paul Legan of Legan Media.
© 1997–2008 Barbara Ann Kipfer
