Author, punctuation champion and humorist Lynne Truss made the proper placement of a comma more meaningful, funny and entertaining than ever before. Her #1 international bestseller, Eats Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, turned the arcane subject into must-read material with her warm, reassuring and consistently amusing commentary. The book spent 46 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and sold three million copies worldwide.
Though known in the U.K. as a broadcaster, journalist, and novelist, in the U.S., Truss is happy to be known mainly as “a grouch, or at least a champion of horrified polite people.” She followed her zero-tolerance approach to punctuation with a zero tolerance manual on wretchedly bad behavior, Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door. Addressing everything from cell phone exhibitionism to people walking four abreast on the sidewalk, it was also a New York Times bestseller.
Her latest book, The Girl’s Like Spaghetti: Why, You Can’t Manage Without Apostrophes!, is an illustrated guide to punctuation for young readers. Whether on the page or the stage, Truss’s wit and love of language makes “sticklers” out of us all.
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