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Poets and Their Passion For Lexicographers

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/adventures-in-biography/201010/poets-and-their-passion-lexicographers-plath-and-roget-dickinson

My “American Language Book Tour” — Following in Noah Webster’s Footsteps

My “American Language Book Tour,” which starts next week, is inspired by America’s first book tour — the one taken by Noah Webster in 1785-1786 to promote his speller.   Webster went up and down America, going from Portsmouth, NH to Savannah, GA.    As I explain in Chapter 4 of my book, “Counting His Way Across America,” in […]

My Boston Globe Review of a New Book on Celebrity

http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2010/08/08/inquiring_minds/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Psychology Today Blog

Here’s the first post of my PT blog, “Adventures in Biography.” http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/adventures-in-biography

The Spelling Bee

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704875604575280822341418854.html The Wall St. Journal recently published an article Noah Webster’ s role as the father of the modern spelling bee