Tom Heehler
Tom Heehler is an American writer and lexicographer best known for The Well-Spoken Thesaurus, published by Sourcebooks in 2011 and now in its fifth printing.
The Chicago Tribune praised it as "a celebration of the spoken word." A distant relative of Funk & Wagnalls co-founder Isaac K. Funk, Heehler has coined literary terms including verb displacement, intuitive description, and rhetorical tension, featured in his book's 50-page style guide.
His work has received international attention from publications including The Economic Times and The Times of India.
He collects works by philosopher Gottfried Leibniz, inspiring his next book on organized creativity.
