Lynne Truss

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Lynne Truss is an English writer and journalist who was born in Richmond in 1955. She is a graduate of University College London, where she read English (taking the best first in her year). She is best known for her commercially successful book on punctuation, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation.

She is the author of three novels and numerous radio comedy dramas. She honed her skills on The Times, where first she spent six years writing television criticism, illustrated by John Minnion, followed by four years as a sports columnist. She won Columnist of the Year for her work for Women's Journal. Truss also hosted Cutting a Dash, a popular BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation. She now reviews books for the Sunday Times and is a familiar voice on BBC Radio 4. Her book Eats, Shoots & Leaves (November 2003), about the misuse of punctuation, became a bestseller in both Britain and the United States. The book's declaration for a "Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation" is considered a rallying call for punctuation "sticklers" of the world. She has recently released a book on manners titled Talk to the Hand.

She is also the writer of the Radio 4 comedy series Acropolis Now.

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