According to journalist Joshua Kendall in The Man Whom Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus, Roget In part one of our interview with Joshua Kendall, we explored how his new book The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus illuminates the mental world of Peter Mark Roget, a man who escaped the disorder of his personal life creating a very orderly thesaurus. The Man Who Made Lists Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus JOSHUA KENDALL G.P.P U T N A M Author: Joshua Kendall But he also had a deeply troubled personal life, surrounded mental illness and heartbreaking tragedy. Joshua Kendall has written a fitting tribute to this fascinating figure in his new biography, The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus. Peter Mark Roget-polymath, eccentric, and synonym aficionado-was a The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Get this from a library! The man who made lists:love, death, madness, and the creation of [i]roget's thesaurus[/i]. [Joshua Kendall; Tantor Media, Inc.] - Award-winning journalist Joshua Kendall presents the extraordinary true story of Peter Mark Roget and his legendary thesaurus.