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Meet Mary Norris: Comma Queen - The Kojo Nnamdi Show
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Mary Norris (born February 7, 1952) is an American author, writer and copy editor for The New Yorker.


Video Mary Norris (copy editor)



Early life

Mary Norris was raised in Cleveland, Ohio. She graduated from Rutgers University in 1974. She earned a masters in English from the University of Vermont.

Maps Mary Norris (copy editor)



Career

Norris joined the editorial staff at The New Yorker in 1978. She has been a query proofreader at the magazine since 1993. She has also been a contributor to "The Talk of the Town" and The New Yorker website.

Her first book, Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen, was published by W. W. Norton & Co on April 6, 2015. She gave a TED talk at TED2016 on the same topic.


Mary Norris: The nit-picking glory of The New Yorker's Comma Queen ...
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References


Copy Editors Are the Proletariat of the Publishing World | Syrian ...
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External links

  • Official website
  • New Yorker Profile

Source of the article : Wikipedia

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