ISBN: 0-88739-318-7
272 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Pub Date: 4/2000
Paperback Original
Price: $13.95
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Crossword Proper Name Finder
John C. Plankinton
Without the Crossword Proper Name Finder, a puzzle-solver might need a movie guide; biographical dictionary; world almanac; a great literature guide; guides to classical music, musicals, operas, jazz, rock and rap, folk music and blues; a guide to contemporary literature; a source or sources in which to find important business men, government figures, sports figures, painters, sculptors, and composers, and on and on.
The book has 73,000 line entries; a main dictionary section has 51,000-plus entries with a little less than half of these entered as Surname, FORENAME and Forename, SURNAME.
A second section, in two parts, has entries of some of these names from the main dictionary with their "products," be it book titles, movie names, paintings, or compositions; the reverse listings of the same information are in the second half.
A chronological listing of important awards (Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes, Olympic Gold Medals, and some Sports Awards) is next.
The final section is a comprehensive guide to rivers and other bodies of water, their locations, the cities on these rivers, and the tributaries to the rivers.
Review: "Easily the largest collection of celebrity names-both first and last-ever compiled. A highly useful tool for the crossword puzzler and anyone who's interested in names."
-Will Shortz, Crossword Editor, The New York Times
Bio: JOHN C. PLANKINTON is a long-retired paper company executive. He lives in San Francisco, where over the past several years he has made compiling this dictionary his full-time job. This specialized crossword dictionary is his only publication.
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