· Mary Norris began working at The New Yorker in and was a query proofreader at the magazine for twenty-four years. She is the author of “Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen. 7 rows · · Mary Norris has spent more than three decades working in The New Yorker’s renowned copy Brand: Norton, W. W. Company, Inc. Mary Norris is the author of Greek to Me and the New York Times bestseller Between You Me, an account of her years in The New Yorker copy department. Originally /5().
Between You Me features Norris' laugh-out-loud descriptions of some of the most common and vexing problems in spelling, punctuation, and usage - comma faults, danglers, "who" versus "whom", "that" versus "which", compound words, gender-neutral language - and her clear explanations of how to handle them. In Mary Norris's "Between You Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen," we have our answer: They most certainly are. And their obsessions, typographical and otherwise, make hilarious reading. Between You Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen is the first book by Mary Norris, who has been on the staff of The New Yorker for some 35 years, and a Page OK'er for twenty of those. She has been referred to by some as a prose goddess, or a comma queen, and indeed, a whole chapter of this book is devoted to comma usage, and cleverly titled.
Mary Norris puts the stamp of approval on every issue of "The New Yorker." She has been the keeper of the magazine's grammar flame since and the magazin. Between You Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen: Author: Mary Norris: Publisher: W. W. Norton Company, ISBN: , Length: pages: Subjects. Mary Norris has spent more than three decades working in The New Yorker’s renowned copy.
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