Mary Norris (copy editor)

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Mary Norris
Norris at the 2019 Texas Book Festival
Born (1952-02-07) February 7, 1952 (age 72)
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Alma materRutgers University
University of Vermont
Occupation(s)Copy editor, writer, author

Mary Norris (born February 7, 1952) is an American author, writer and copy editor for The New Yorker.

Early life

Mary Norris was raised in Cleveland, Ohio. She graduated from Rutgers University in 1974 and earned a master's degree in English from the University of Vermont.[1]

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.[2][3]

Her first book, Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen, was published by W. W. Norton & Co in 2015.[4][5] Norris was a finalist in the 2016 Thurber Prize for American Humor for Between You & Me.[6] She gave a TED talk at TED2016 on the same topic.[7][8] Her second book, Greek to Me – Adventures of a Comma Queen (2019), explores her relation to foreign languages, particularly to classical Greek.[9]

References

  1. ^ Mary Norris (February 23, 2015). "Confessions of a Comma Queen". The New Yorker.
  2. ^ The New York Times
  3. ^ Borrelli, Christopher (April 3, 2015). "New Yorker editor makes her mark with new book". Chicago Tribune.
  4. ^ "Between You & Me". wwnorton.com.
  5. ^ "Memoir, Perfectly Punctuated In Between You & Me". NPR. Retrieved June 8, 2016.
  6. ^ "Past Thurber Prize Winners and Finalists". Thurber House. Retrieved October 17, 2018.
  7. ^ "Mary Norris: The nit-picking glory of The New Yorker's comma queen". TED. Retrieved June 8, 2016.
  8. ^ "Mary Norris Gives a TED Talk on Her Career as a Copy Editor". Galley Cat. Retrieved June 8, 2016.
  9. ^ "Review: Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen, by Mary Norris" by Elfrieda Abbe, Star Tribune, March 29, 2019

External links

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