The Lexicon: An Unauthorized Guide to Harry Potter Fiction and Related Materials

This unauthorized guide to the popular series by author J.K. Rowling is a 368 page companion work perfect for the curious reader who wants to know more about these remarkable books. Extensive new commentary, which does not appear on Vander Ark's Harry Potter Lexicon website (www.hp-lexicon.org) adds to the fun of reading this reference work. Written by the founder and editor of the world-renowned Harry Potter Lexicon website, which attracts 25 million visitors each year, Steve Vander Ark's definitive encyclopedia is a popular and scholarly work. The Lexicon has been the subject of more than 1,000 articles from Bombay to Boston. Featured in The New York Times, the London Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, the Associated Press, USA Today, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and on CNN and Fox News, the Lexicon is written by an outstanding team of reference experts. This indispensable guide is a comprehensive and entertaining work ideal for readers, researchers, students, librarians and academics.

Librarian Steve Vander Ark is creator of the Harry Potter Lexicon website (www.HP-lexicon.org. He frequently keynotes academic conferences on the Harry Potter novels in America, Canada and The United Kingdom. Vander Ark has been interviewed by the New York Times, the New Yorker, the BBC, NBC's Today Show and A&E. A former middle school media specialist he lectures all over the world on the Harry Potter series.