2. Dr Johnson famously took nine years to write his dictionary, but the biggest thesaurus in the world will be published this autumn after a labour of love spanning five decades.
Work on the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary began in 1965. The mammoth enterprise has survived fire and funding problems and has had to be constantly updated to incorporate new words.
With 800,000 meanings for 600,000 words organized into more than 230,000 categories and subcategories, the thesaurus is twice the size of Roget’s version.
It contains almost the entire vocabulary of English, from Old English to the present day, giving a unique insight into the development of the language.
- After a 44-year labour of love, world’s biggest thesaurus is born, The Times, July 6, 2009.
3. In the weeks after Paul Harding’s first novel, “Tinkers”, won the Pulitzer in April, you could not find it in Manhattan. The book’s publisher was the Bellevue Literary Press, a tiny house affiliated with a mental institution that operates out of the sixth floor of a New York University hospital building.
Only the second piece of fiction published by a small press to win the prize, “Tinkers” quickly sold out of its stock. Harding, a 42-year old former rock drummer, describes Bellevue Literary Press as the kind of place where phone calls are answered by your editor—the only editor. “Tinkers” had made the rounds with most big publishing houses. After years of rejections, it reached the desk of Bellevue's editorial director Erika Goldman, on the recommendation of an editor from a larger house who had passed on it. Neither publisher nor author had the nerve to imagine worldly success for so quiet and meditative a book.
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