Interview: Judith Flanders on the History of Alphabetical Order

The origins of her new book, writing world history, and more

Jason Park
Park & Recommendations
7 min readOct 19, 2020

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I interviewed author Judith Flanders about her new book, A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order. She was gracious enough to give me her time and offered some terrific answers to my burning questions, as you can see below. You can…

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Jason Park
Park & Recommendations

Book-reviewer, AP World History and AP Psychology Teacher. MAT Secondary Social Studies, University of Arkansas. Arlington, TX.