Barbara Ann Kipfer is a lexicographer. She has written more than 50 books, including 14,000 Things to be Happy About, which has more than a million copies in print and has given rise to many Page-a-Day calendars. The 25th anniversary edition of the book was published in October 2014. She is the editor of Roget's International Thesaurus. Kipfer is Chief Lexicographer of the company Temnos. She has worked for such companies as Google, Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com, Answers.com, Ask Jeeves, Bellcore/Telcordia, Federated Media Publishing, General Electric Research, IBM Research, idealab, Knowledge Adventure, Textdigger, and WolframAlpha. Barbara holds a PhD and MPhil in Linguistics, a PhD in Archaeology, an MA and a PhD in Buddhist Studies, and a BS in Physical Education. 

January 1st, 1954 in La Porte (Age 70)