The Complete Word Book

[Steve K.]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Arnold Zwicky wrote:

> my daughter, who is always on the look-out for little things that
> would please me, has given me a copy of this book, a cheap ($9.98)
> 1999 barnes & noble reprint of the 1991 original ($29.95).  the
> author-compiler is Mary A. De Vries (about whom we learn nothing
> whatsoever, in the book or on its jacket - not even a "Ph.D." tag).

Searching on her on bn.com, she also wrote/edited:

The New Robert's Rules of Orders
Business Thesaurus
Legal Secretary's Complete Handbook (revision)
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Terms
The New American Three-Step Vocabulary Builder

And the list goes on.

No reviews of Complete Word Book on bn.com, nor are there any on
amazon.com.

Penguin has a brief webpage for the author at
http://www.penguinputnam.com/catalog/nfiction/authors/8722_biography.html
but no major information there.

For what it's worth.


--- Steve K.