Jeri Ferris
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the man who wrote the first U.S. dictionary traces his youth as a bookish Connecticut farm boy and his 20-year effort to write the 2,000-page, all-American dictionary that was published in 1828 when he was 70 years old, in an account complemented by an illustrated chronology.