Lynne Truss is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves, which has over one million copies in print in the United States. In Britain, the book won the 2004 Book of the Year Award and has sold well over a million copies.

A writer and journalist who started out as a literary editor with a blue pencil and then got side-tracked, she is also the author of numerous radio comedy dramas and three novels, With One Lousy Packet of Seed, Tennyson’s Gift, and Going Loco (which, together with a non-fiction collection of columns, Making the Cat Laugh, will be published in the U.S. in one volume as The Lynne Truss Treasury in July 2005).

Truss’ new book, Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door (November 2005), tackles modern manners.

Truss spent six years as the television critic for The Times of London, followed by four (rather peculiar) years as a sports columnist for the same newspaper. Additionally, she won Columnist of the Year for her work in Woman’s Journal. A familiar voice on the BBC’s Radio 4, Lynne Truss also hosted Cutting a Dash, a popular series about punctuation. She lives in Brighton, England.