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Joshua Kendall: The Man Who Made Lists. Love, Death, Madness and the Creation of Roget’s Thesaurus.
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Joshua Kendall chats with Gabriella about the choices he made while writing The Man Who Made Lists, his biography of Peter Mark Roget, the eighteenth-century polymath who created the legendary Roget’s Thesaurus.
Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:
Why Joshua felt compelled to write The Man Who Made Lists.
The meaning behind the book’s title.
Why Joshua decided to open the biography with a tragic scene involving Peter Roget.
How Joshua crafted a deeply nuanced portrait of Roget’s that conveys his complicated personality, relationships…
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