Mignon Fogarty

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Mignon Fogarty is a science writer who produces an educational podcast Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing, which promotes the proper use of the English language and was named one of the best podcasts of 2007 by iTunes. [1] She is also the wife of Patrick Fogarty, the host of the Armchair President podcast.

Fogarty graduated with a B.A. in English from the University of Washington in Seattle and an M.S. in biology from Stanford University.[2]

Her career has focused on science and writing. She has been editor-in-chief and producer for the LongerLiving website before becoming the editorial director of CaregiverZone. Later she became the editorial director and executive producer of GeneticHealth.com.[3] She was the producer and co-host of the podcast Absolute Science.[4]

[edit] Television appearances

Fogarty shown here on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Fogarty shown here on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

On his Discovery Science Channel series It's All Geek to Me, New York Times technology writer David Pogue dressed up as Fogarty, hair, glasses and all, and lip-synched one of her actual podcasts as part of a "visual demonstration" of what podcasts were in that program's episode about the iPod. He also gave the same treatment to Grammar Girl's fellow Quick and Dirty Tips podcaster Legal Lad.

In January 2007, CNN featured Fogarty and her podcast calling her a "a quick and dirty success". [5]

Mignon Fogarty appeared on the March 26, 2007 episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show as a grammar expert. She was on the show to answer a viewer question about the use of possessive apostrophes. The viewer thought a previous show should have been titled "Oprah's and Gayle's Big Adventure," but Fogarty confirmed that "Oprah and Gayle's Big Adventure" was a correct use of compound possession.[6] She went on to discuss several other common grammar errors, including "Affect vs. Effect" and "Who vs. Whom."[7]

[edit] Books

In September 2007, Fogarty and Holt/Holtzbrinck agreed to produce books coordinated with the podcasts. [8] The first audiobook to come from the Holt agreement, "Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips to Clean Up Your Writing," was named one of the top five audiobooks of 2007 by iTunes. [9]

[edit] References

  1. ^ iTunes Best of 2007
  2. ^ Genetic Health Contributors.
  3. ^ Grammar Girl Bio
  4. ^ Welltopia Bio.
  5. ^ 'Grammar Girl' a quick and dirty success - CNN.com
  6. ^ An 'Oprah Show' Grammar Goof?
  7. ^ Grammar Girl Fixes Common Mistakes
  8. ^ Publishers Weekly
  9. ^ iTunes Best of 2007.
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